Some people thought he had deep knowledge of many topics, economics, business, software, engineering, energy, tech, cars, space. Most people thought he had good instincts and good surface knowledge of many topics, which is uncommon enough to be quite impressive. But now everyone is realizing that he is an overconfident armchair idiot who thinks he is in the first category.

you are not downvoted because people want to shit on musk. you are downvoted because you use very simplistic, terribly uneducated, fallacious arguments to defend what he does and why he does it.

if you think twitter losing money was an issue, it means you don't understand how these American tech companies work. a company aims to grow. To do that you can rely on investments or on revenues. American tech companies don't care about revenues. they hardly care about future revenues.

a hint that you insist that twitter was losing money, as if your position is obvious and trivial. They were hiring and paying tens of thousands of employees top dollars and had 0 difficulty whatsoever to pay them. Twitter money has never been a concern to anyone. So there is a clue somewhere that you don't see the difference between a business that's losing money, and a business that's struggling to pay the bills.

American tech companies don't try to be in the black; they finance with capitalization and twitter had 0 issue whatsoever to finance its next decade, even if they wouldn't come close to justify how they will get revenues.

that's a debatable model but it's an incredible strength that American capitalism leverages. It's feeding itself exponentially. While European companies try to be in the black, American companies expand and steamroll everything in every direction, burning infinite capital, crushing competition, establishing themselves as monopolies for decades on the most strategic industries.

that's a reality which illustrated how disconnected musk was from everything, when he started trying to make this company change its model from growing from outside investments, to growing from revenues.

I mean, that's a change of strategy that might be ok, but at least take a few days to think about it? And more than a few weeks to execute it? I guess at some point it makes sense that these companies try focusing on revenues. But when you actually do it, look into the past: it takes years to change the momentum. So maybe he can pull it of, but frankly... For now it looks like he is destroying his personal brand, twitter's brand, tesla's brand. All of them based on external investor inflating the value based on the credibility he was bringing to the table.

it's quite sad actually. IMO musk was important to convince many people that space, energy, EVs, green energy are important. Even freedom of speech and social media, he could have had a positive impact because there are indeed a lot of things to say. Instead of that he is doing an incredible amount of damage to these topics, out of overinflated ego and feverish behavior.