So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Jones is just one of the high profile ones. Musk reinstated all sorts of absolute degenerates who had been banned for behaviour of any flavour you can name.

Once he had it, it was 8chan.

Wait...

Are you not aware how up his own arse people think Bono is. This has been the case since the 80s.

I'm genuinely suspicious now as to your understanding of actual Irish culture.

Ask anyone in Dublin a question about the man on the street and you'll get your answer. It's odd you are unaware of this. Frankly. It's near pop culture at this point decades on. We disliked him before U2 jammed all their music on that branded iPod and pissed the planet off 🤣🤣

Quantum brought up bono btw.

Also I'm suspicious that you're not close to common Irish culture (like at all)

Touché. I'll give you that one.

At a certain level it is. You have to be extremely rich to buy and run a jet. But, then again why do we countenance our government owning and using private jets? I think there is a case to be made based on need. Or take professional golfers as an example that I mentioned already. They spend a lot of time travelling and their personal time is very precious.

So, we could say that all golfers with planes have lavish lifestyles. But are some more lavish than others? Possibly Rory McIlroys (at $50 million) is, but I'd say most golf fans don't give a flying f**k

Ah lighten up. Watch this then and tell me it's not funny. Just showing y'all stuff directly from my feed and none of it is the stuff you seem to fret about …

I'm certainly not trying to convince anyone to go back either. What a pointless exercise that would be.

How about this?

Just occurred to me that I never see Blue Sky (or Threads) posts quoted on this site, except only to show that Blue Sky can be as bad as X.

But his companies exist off the back of major government subsidies. If the subsidies both carbon and or contracts were pulled tomorrow morning they'd fall next to immediately.

I'm fairly intrigued as to how super smart and intelligent he is when he hasn't built something that can exist alone in the private market with just business to business or consumer based customers. Wouldn't that indicate a level of savvy on company building .

PayPal was a collective btw not musk on his own all of whom have built companies in the private space that don't actually exist on US government funding or carbon subsidies.

Interesting angle though, I guess.

But his companies exist off the back of major government subsidies. If the subsidies both carbon and or contracts were pulled tomorrow morning they'd fall next to immediately.

If any company lost all its contracts then I expect it would collapse. Obviously the likes of Space X deals substantially with the government and they've been getting contracts from it going back to Obama's time.

Every company also exists in an environment of incentives and disincentives. That's how governments get things done. They pay people to do the things they want and they uses taxes and other disincentives to discourage the things they want stopped or not done.

Every company is also a collective to some extent. All employees play a role. But, strategy is driven by senior management.