An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?

  • donuts@kbin.social
    29·
    1 year ago

    This fucking dude could have spent <$1M hiring a small team to spin up a heavily customized X-branded Mastodon server, but instead he spent $44 BILLION dollars buying and ruining Twitter. That’s fucking crazy…

    • bermuda@beehaw.org
      24·
      1 year ago

      this is the guy who decided to build a tunnel under LA to skip traffic and then instead built one in las vegas that gets traffic jams

        • bermuda@beehaw.org
          25·
          1 year ago

          yes but he built it in las vegas. It has a few stops and relies on teslas, each with a driver, and it functions as a very basic “public transit” system. Almost none of what he initially promised are present in the final design. Originally it was going to be his “hyperloop” thing. Then it was “autonomous vehicles.” Now it’s “teslas driven by people”

        • figment@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          As much as I hate Elon, right now it’s just a few stations and there have been some backups but overall it’s a success based on rider reviews and capacity.

          It’s not worth making shit up to slander him when there are SO MANY valid reasons.