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Elon Musk Picks a Fight with the Wrong Senator

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The $8 plan is such an obvious unforced error that you have to wonder if Elon has anybody pushing back on him. This entire debacle also draws into relief the difference between a product company like Tesla, or Apple, for that matter, and Twitter. Musk can establish a vision for Tesla or SpaceX, and then it’s all about the execution. With Twitter, there’s the vision, then the execution, then the unintentional side-effects. And the personnel who have the crucial seasoning needed to anticipate the side-effects are mostly gone.

> you have to wonder if Elon has anybody pushing back on him

Pretty sure he fired anyone who would, or those who left won't because they don't want to get fired, too.

  you have to wonder if Elon has anybody pushing back on him.

If there was anyone around to contain him, Musk probably wouldn't be publicly celebrating Nazis.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-reacts-to-...

He is too arrogant to listen to anyone at Twitter who knows. He's been redpilled into believing the employees are all idiots; it's a major Chesterton's fence moment. Now he's paranoid and untrusting of the remaining engineers, with a company-wide code freeze requiring his personal sign off on any changes. I'll be surprised if the company still exists a year from now.

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