You have a hilarious amount of confidence about the competency of America's oligarchs. Elon is a financial scammer, his money all comes from government subsidies.
He ain't as smart as you think he is.
I'm pretty sure the comment came from the other direction - that Twitter's board/CEO wasn't so inept they needed to be advised by HN.
> He ain't as smart as you think he is.
My comment didn’t say anything about Elon. Please read it again.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
by Sporktacular on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:18PM
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Have you seen him give the everyday astronaut guy the boca chic tour? Yeah, he's pretty damn smart.
If you mean he has poor financial judgement, that's something else - but there are billions of reasons why you might be mistaken.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
by mensetmanusman on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:31PM
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Just like Boeing, Lockheed, GM, etc.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
by semanticist on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:09PM
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Those companies don't have people worshipping them like they're a collective of geniuses. Musk's companies certainly aren't any worse than those companies - but they're no better either, and he's no Messiah.
> he's no Messiah.
Saying that on HN is just cruel: you know full well you have exactly the niche in your grip that simultaneously wants to exclaim.. the behavioural tendency of the child that he is, and bears the feeling 'no no, not here'...
Yeah. Wealthy individuals advised by the best experts can't figure out what is good for them. Only if they would have someone in their orbit who knows how to read hacker news comments. </sarcasm>