04-27-2022, 05:53 AM
A few commentators think this impulse buy by Musk might leave him in the same sort of quandary as a dog who chases a car and catches it: what does he do now? He'll now be the face of Twitter and he'll be responsible for the day-to-day management of it. And it's certain he's not going to please everybody. Every decision he makes will put someone offside. He's following a path that has become staple fare in superhero movies. For instance, in The Incredibles the superheroes are initially feted for bringing crime under control but then mistakes start to put the populace offside to the point that they become public enemies. Spiderman also faces unpopularity after a while. How will Musk react when everyone turns on him?
He's even worse off because he has a number of other ventures which benefit from his iconoclastic image. But if he becomes the unpopular dictator of Twitter, that may adversely affect those other ventures. For instance, if he does deals with Russia and China to seal off their Twitter spheres and crack down on anti-government tweets, and unleashes a free-for-all for rightwing extremists in the US, he'll alienate pro-democracy libertarians and leftwingers. I'd guess that most of the demand for Teslas would come from that that part of the political spectrum. I'd imagine Trumpists would consider electric vehicles as a betrayal of the MAGA commitment to fossil fuels. Teslas would be on the nose and those buyers would seek out cars made by other manufacturers.
He's bought a white elephant, methinks.
He's even worse off because he has a number of other ventures which benefit from his iconoclastic image. But if he becomes the unpopular dictator of Twitter, that may adversely affect those other ventures. For instance, if he does deals with Russia and China to seal off their Twitter spheres and crack down on anti-government tweets, and unleashes a free-for-all for rightwing extremists in the US, he'll alienate pro-democracy libertarians and leftwingers. I'd guess that most of the demand for Teslas would come from that that part of the political spectrum. I'd imagine Trumpists would consider electric vehicles as a betrayal of the MAGA commitment to fossil fuels. Teslas would be on the nose and those buyers would seek out cars made by other manufacturers.
He's bought a white elephant, methinks.