Twitter is losing users and is resorting to mob protection racket techniques to get more advertising spend.

Tesla is constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. FSD fuckups, the absolute disaster of quality control that is the Cybertruck, service delays, parts delays, safety recalls...

SpaceX reportedly has layers of management to protect the actual people who get shit done from Musk's interference. This being the most successful of the companies may possibly be a result of that. https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224

Take away all of Elon's government subsidies and how successful are any of his businesses in terms of actual lifetime profit vs loss?

He's the living corporate embodiment of what old school Reagan Republicans decry as a welfare queen, even down to the drug addiction.

Most of his businesses are failures. He has two enormous successes. Unsuccessful businesses eventually fold and go away. That's not an acceptable option for the federal government.

Governments aren’t businesses. They have different incentives and goals. You’re very naive to think otherwise and falling for a pretty common conservative trap.

> Elon's businesses are highly successful running exactly this algorithm.

Oh how nice, but we don't rely on Twitter to look after nuclear weapon stockpiles, warn us about E. coli in food, or fund vaccine development. So it's not really the same is it?