Faiz SiddiquiDec 24, 2022

NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: "please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.”

That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order. IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried Twitter would be breaking the law.

Days later, two executives were fired.

"These guys did amazing damage,” a former employee told me of the Musk subordinates running the company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post
Show threadFaiz SiddiquiDec 24, 2022

Inside Twitter, Musk occupies a 10th-floor conference room with a staging area. There, guests wait for the Twitter CEO — sometimes for more than an hour — before being called in.

Meeting guests are instructed not to speak until Musk does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post
Show threadAnton ☮️🚂
@faizsays It is obvious now that in order to become a billionaire these days you need to be a sociopath.
Dec 24, 2022 at 3:54pmWeb
Show threadAngieDec 24, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays Wealth hoarding, like any hoarding, is a mental illness and yet capitalism rewards and celebrates it.
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 24, 2022
@angiebaby @politicalpunk @faizsays Wealth hoarding is but a small part of the problem. We, as a society, need to stop worshiping idols.
Show threadAnton ☮️🚂Dec 24, 2022
@hu_logic @angiebaby @faizsays Exactly. I only admire never worship, and even that can be fraught with downsides.
Show threadZelkDec 24, 2022
@angiebaby @politicalpunk @faizsays True.
Show threadFrancis ☑️Dec 24, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays it's absurd that society lets anyone become a billionnaire. Given that money is largely numbers in computers, kind of like scores in a computer game with rules that we all agree to live by. Societies can choose any rules they want, yet we consistently choose rules in the game that is life that allows people to accumulate really large numbers.
Show threadAnton ☮️🚂Dec 24, 2022
@wtfrank @faizsays I 💯 agree! If I had that wealth I would feel so guilty day in and day out.
Show threadsemiquaverDec 25, 2022
@wtfrank @politicalpunk @faizsays the key has been tax reduction. The top marginal rate is half what it was 50 years ago ! The super rich got control of a political party and made that job one. They are going to cancel democracy before it swings the other way.
Show threadFrancis ☑️Dec 25, 2022
@semiquaver @politicalpunk @faizsays And these dark-funded "think tanks" that drag the public policy debate in a direction that optimises for the wealthy rather than the public at large.
Show threadSteve PopovichDec 26, 2022
@semiquaver @wtfrank @politicalpunk @faizsays that's if it CAN swing the other way...either the rich would have to allow the swing, or there would be revolutions and guillotines before the society could reach such s point.
Show threadche chou Dec 24, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays i would even say that being a sociopath is the only way to accumulating that much wealth.
Show threadVAWeismanDec 24, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays Most billionaires made that money through exploitation: exploiting loopholes in laws & regulations, exploiting labor, or exploiting the environment. All for the goal of self enrichment. They then showily give .001% of that wealth to address the results of that exploitation as “charity”, thus allowing them to write it off their taxes.
Show threadSteve PopovichDec 26, 2022
@vaweisman @politicalpunk @faizsays most? Pretty much all billionaires, and even quite a few lower level capitalists. Capitalism, at its root, is exploitation to extract value from other people's labor for the capitalist class.
Show threadSteve PopovichDec 26, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays to be honest, that has always been the quickest way to riches. CEOs and politicians both have much higher rates of sociopathy than almost all other occupations, because the whole job, in both cases, is manipulating other people.
Show threadMike FraserDec 26, 2022
@politicalpunk @faizsays Brains was never the prerequisite for success in business. It was always a mixture of being fearless and utterly ruthless.