• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What has he created? He bought himself into Twitter and Tesla… and the work is essentially done entirely by other people. i.e his employees

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      8 months ago

      Yep. And his pet projects that he personally drives always crash and burn. He’s the one that pushed the autopilot feature hard despite his engineers publicly objecting.

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      8 months ago

      what has he created

      One of the best PR campaigns in modern history. Just five years ago people on both sides of the political spectrum were seeing this guy as one of the smartest humans alive, who would actually put man on another planet.

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        8 months ago

        Then he got rid of the PR team and started doing his own PR, and it went as well as it always does when Elon has direct control.

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        8 months ago

        That last part can and probably will happen despite his public perception