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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by marcuschong on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:52PM (#43199968)
It would be amazing if Elon became recognized as the toxic figure that he is, and that had real economic impact on his companies.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by marcuschong on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:55PM (#43199995)
I do wonder though, when I see so many famous people on Joe Rogan, for example, if the world isn't pass that somehow. Remember Neil Young as the absolutely solitary voice trying to pressure Spotify? It doesn't matter if you think Rogan should be boycotted; there are people that clearly should be doing it, to be honest with their own values, but aren't.

Edit: small correction.

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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by saturn8601 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:35PM (#43200634)
Since Trump started his term, Rogan has fallen from the top podcast in the charts to number two with a 32% drop in downloads over the past month. I guess its something?
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by ta1243 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:54PM (#43200397)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo

> Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January.

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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by roenxi on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:01PM (#43200438)
> In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit...

By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp".

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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by insane_dreamer on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:01AM (#43202202)
Actually before WW2 many Americans were somewhat sympathetic to the Nazis; Hitler didn't seem so bad until he started invading other countries and stepped up his persecution of the Jews and Roma in 1938. Other recipients of that award were Charles Lindburgh and the chairman of IBM.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by _DeadFred_ on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:57PM (#43209644)
I'm not going to research historical Nazi's to try and what, understand???, why current day nazi's aren't so bad. Fuck all Nazi's.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:00PM (#43200025)
Well, there's a lot in the news today about the FAA cancelling a 2.4 billion dollar contract with Verizon and awarding it to Starlink.

So look like Musk may have gotten a good deal with the couple hundred million he spent to help get Trump elected.

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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by LanceJones on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:56PM (#43200002)
You wish for the failure of industry-leading products and tech developed by 150,000+ employees around the world? What a strange thing to wish for.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by Larrikin on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:53PM (#43200390)
Lots of people wish for the failures of profitable businesses. The sooner the better for us to be off oil the better for the planet. The slave trade employed many people and was extremely profitable. There's no reason to care about Starlink being successful.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by AngryData on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:18PM (#43200533)
Why not? The entire point of market economics is to make that not a problem and leave room for other potentially better companies to take the place of worse ones. He obviously is a negative influence for the business as a whole even if he stayed out of politics, just the fact that he tries to pull so much money/value out of those businesses for personal gain has a negative effect on how efficient and beneficial to consumers those businesses can be.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by jxjnskkzxxhx on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:52PM (#43200757)
Yes, I do. More important than tech and jobs is that we keep too much power from accumulating in any one persons hands.
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Re:Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's St... by rsynnott on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:40AM (#43203242)
That _may_ be happening, with fairly dramatic Tesla sales declines in Europe, though that also might just be competition.
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