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I am no longer a Twitter user, but if I remember correctly, a recent musk tweet was talking about how bad LinkedIn was and that the new X app should go after that market.

Maybe that?

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He just assumes X will disrupt everything, and it won't. It's already on life support, dude can't even pay his bills for office space he still occupies.

can't? or doesn't as part of a negotiation tactic? - do you really think the richest person in the country couldn't pay his rent if he wanted to?

He is probably making some elaborate libertarian point with this stance, but nobody understands it or even wants to :)

> He is probably making some elaborate libertarian point with this stance

I don't think "Adhering to contracts is for little people" is much of a libertarian point, let alone an elaborate one, but what do I know?

He is not adhering to a contract, so that's the point he is making for some reason, and not the opposite. t was more of a joke, because he does hold some weird views about free market ("rules for thee and not for me", stuff like that).

It’s almost as though he’s using that money to bully smaller people because they can’t afford to sue him. Which, in a shocking coincidence, is how Trump ran his companies.

Can't or doesn't... regardless, he isn't. I think his wealth is inflated. When he defaults on his twitter loan, lenders will sell their collateral aka Tesla shares, to make up the difference dragging Tesla down with it and eliminating a huge portion of his wealth and the wealth of people/shareholders invested in Tesla.

Not paying what you owe by contract is not "a negotiation tactic", it is either theft or looming bankruptcy.

The average person would be called a deadbeat squatter, but when you're rich, you're apparently just driving a hard bargain.

It's like buying a car seat from the repair shop and then saying "well, I'll just build the rest of the car around it, easy".

more like dragster around it. You know how it goes.

That would be a decent analogy, if only it wasn't said by someone who managed to do almost exactly that a hundred times over.

Who is more believable, a person who has built/built-up and runs several multi-billion dollar companies and accomplished more in his life than 99.999% of people that have ever lived?, or the random person on the internet who likes to anonymously criticize successful people?

Sounds a bit like jealousy to me.

Shouldn't you be off building an imaginary tunnel, Mr Musk?

He bought into those companies willingly and on his terms though. Twitter he was force to buy. Now he is flailing around for some kind of exit strategy from his 1 billion a year interest payments.

Also today's Musk isn't the same as yesteryear's Musk. Back then people still gave him the benefit of the doubt and allowing him to hype things to the moon. Today he is disliked by a hell of a lot of people making everything he touches toxic to those people.

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