Thus incentivizing him greatly to take the decisions motivated by money and not some imaginary neutrality or "fight the bad behaviors" concept? He mentioned this tangentially right before delving into how hard those jobs are which one absolutely doesn't have to take.
So to me, the whole thread is like "running social platforms and making a lot of money is tricky, because a lot of people will rightfully hate you, but you still need to make the money, so... poor Elon?" I don't think so.
p.s. I would also prefer Elon to work on spaceships, cars, leaving social platforms to run for somebody else
No, the whole thread is "running social platforms and making a lot of money is tricky, because a lot of people will rightfully hate you, so Elon should just not do it."
Not really—the poster (ie, a previous CEO of Reddit) is trying to tell Elon that what he wants to do is impossible, and Elon attempting to do so will just make everyone mad at him, as well as making him completely miserable in the process. One of those "this will kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you're dying" sort of things).
I don't know if he's right or not, but I do agree that running a social media company is messy for social, not technical reasons—and brilliant engineers generally struggle with complex social dynamics. (As always, there's a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/592/)
Most of what he's saying makes perfect sense to me. But people will dismiss the entire thing, pointing to weak examples ranging from individual instances of actual bad behavior to honest mistakes to tangential events of tenuous relevance to complete falsehoods.