[hcazz]

To play devil's advocate for a bit, are you certain he's solely responsible for the successes of SpaceX/Tesla, or that those companies succeeded in spite of his leadership?

In case it isn't clear, I agree with the parent comment. In the same tone as the comment above the parent, you could also write "Thing is - Elon Musk knows a thing or two about sexual harassment lawsuits. It's inevitable that he will have another at Twitter."

Stop idolizing billionaires.

>Musk has successfully run companies in the past and is running two extremely successful companies right now.

Is he actually running those companies, or is he posting selfies of whiteboards at 1:30am showing architecture diagrams of Twitter?

In these markets, after he was nearly forced by courts into completing a purchase deal for Twitter after making an overpriced offer, I'm genuinely curious to see how he pays the ~$1b in interest per year on the debt to purchase Twitter.

[GoOnThenDoTell]

He can just sell more tesla stock, its a fake financial problem he’s being loud about

[kortilla]

> Stop idolizing billionaires.

Stop saying this in discussions about one particular person.

It’s as useful as saying “stop idolizing millionaires” when someone says they like Hillary Clinton as a Presidential Candidate.

[henrikschroder]

No, people are idolizing Musk because he is a billionaire.

People who obviously know absolutely fucking nothing about coding or manufacturing or running businesses or software engineering or cars or space or rockets or emerald mines are continuously defending Musk, and their only justification is that "he's rich, so he's obviously smarter than you!"

[kortilla]

> No, people are idolizing Musk because he is a billionaire.

No they are not. They are idolizing him specifically because of the success of Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal.

> "he's rich, so he's obviously smarter than you!"

Nobody is making that argument. Its usually, “look at the success of the companies he leads”.

You can make an argument about whether or not he should get the credit he does for the success, but nobody is idolizing the wealth.

None of these people are going to defend the great insight of the winner of the last powerball because there is no repeated pattern of long term success.