He was massively bullied as a child, now it's his turn!
He was not.
He might be lying, but it's just as likely that he's 'having my turn!'
Elon's father has talked about it in interviews. It seems Elon was the bully in this specific incident.
Pretty sad existence, even with all of his toys.
Elon has enough money that he could quit today and have enough money for 10 lives of pure hedonistic bliss... and yet chooses to spend his days on his phone, posting shitty memes and being a dick on Twitter.
It's mind boggling, really.
The guy politely tries to get his attention to find out whether he still has a job. And Musk's response is to interrogate him publicly, mock him, and accuse him of using his disability as an excuse to avoid work.
It's cretinous in so many different ways it's hard to see how the stupidest person would think it a sensible course of action.
Particularly post-Twitter, the problem has gotten _clearer_ to the public, but that was his first really public obvious "by the way, have I mentioned that I'm completely awful?" thing.
Public opinion might be up or down, depending on which community you're polling, but I believe he's back to being the richest person in the world[0], so I'd say he "got away with it" in every possible respect.
0. https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-once-again-richest-21554083...
It's a sign of immaturity.
How can you feel shame about your impulse towards being a horrible bigot when the President of the free world or a multi-billionaire is just like you!
I'm honestly starting to wonder if we humans might be more imperfect than we let on. Stranger things have happened before!
Now...on to read some stories.
That's weird, because what's this?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unforced_error
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/unfor...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unforced%20e...
OOPSADAISY: oh, how sweet is the irony...you said "there's" not "there's not" - I will just leave this up as further demonstration of my point, and some humble pie!
> What you're saying would suggest all errors are fundamentally alike, only differing in severity
You are working at the concrete level, I am speaking at higher levels of abstraction.
Note that what is said and what is received are often not the same - sometimes, it is even the opposite!
> ...but this is of course not the case.
The word "is" is very slippery/sneaky - watch out!
> I don't know of anyone who thinks in that way about people's behaviour.
Perhaps you do not know everyone - or, of those people you do know, you may not have comprehensive knowledge of their cognitive styles and capabilities.
> Your dismissiveness is woefully misplaced.
Your attitude is being noted, Mr Rivers.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/bed10ee3-765d-4985-89e0-4fa4742...
Now, back to all of the interesting stories in this thread...
Do you consider this a universal fact or a local fact?
Consider how a graduate level physics lecture would look to a C student in grade 9, for example.
> If you cannot comprehend why simply dismissing shit behaviour with "he's only human" is moronic then that makes you quite special.
This is quite interesting, what does it refer to that occurred in this conversation?
I recommend that if you're going to criticize someone, criticize something that they have actually done. Granted, this may be a lot less fun, but it is at least plausibly more optimal.
In this context, does it matter what his net worth is? Are you implying it’s not possible that people defend him for his positions alone?
Both him and Halli come off bad in this exchange, in my opinion. Not sure why money is a deciding factor to you.
I do see that Trump redirected hate from his followers onto targets. Is that what is going to happen here? Is that the unsupportive toxic aspect of this type of social media?
What was the former employee expecting anyway ? Why someone suposedly as "talented" and wealthy as is is would ask and spill all of this publicly ? It's pure attention seeking
People can downvote but im 100% sure thats what elons think^^
Humbly, when I don't understand where Musk comes from on something, I don't assume that the disconnect is due to superior intelligence on my part[0] (but weirdly, plenty of people with objectively little accomplishment have no problem assuming that they are seeing something Musk is blind to)
So, everything that follows is conjecture for the sake of a probabilistic answer to your question.
I suspect Musk is "allergic" to the type of work/worker this person seems to do. The person's self-cited list of accomplishments doesn't actually list a single impactful accomplishment, which isn't acceptable for someone senior enough to not do any hands-on work.
Now, again, this is a guess, but I suspect that this type of "allergy" is a big component of Musk's success in general in how he works and who he hires for his companies. It likely serves his very well. As a "side effect" of that allergy, it probably compels him to toe/cross the line in cases like this. If you believe in something deeply, you speak to it even at your own risk.
Again, not saying that's what I would do, but I am also not the guy who runs Tesla and all these other companies, so if you have a choice between what I'd do, and what Musk would do, do what he would do!
[0] It's very popular to say he's a hype man who just rides the wave of provocative tweets. But... have people who say that ever seen, drove, ride in a Tesla? Those are real. Maybe people can't comprehend the amount of stuff you gotta get right to make and sell a car, if they did they would keep that totally distinct from the "hype" category. And aren't those ships going to space etc? It's a weird flex to claim that Musk doesn't get really important, difficult things done - and if you accept that he does, then it's weird to claim "but I don't understand how he works, so I assume he's the idiot"