[nine_k]

"$34B is a steep price to kill Twitter, but maybe it's worth it", a somebody wrote back in the day.

Apparently it sort of was worth it for Musk, but it cost him, and is going to cost further down the line.

[bdangubic]

he bought an office in the white house which he already turned into much more than what he invested in X with 4 more years to come…

[Hikikomori]

They put him in a building across the street and he has to talk to chief of staff now.

[bdangubic]

if I had $44bn to spare I’d pay for that kind of access to USA government… running “DOGE” alone I’d pay twice that

[rsynnott]

I mean, realistically, hard to imagine him lasting 4 years. See the previous Trump term… turnover was… high.

[bdangubic]

if you surround yourself with intelligent people (which for the most part he did in both 2016-2020 and now) they will get sick of him soon (we have 78 years of examples of this…) :)

[Theodores]

He bought himself into the White House as a tech-bro Rasputin, probably the most paid for that level of influence, so we can expect him to get his money's worth.

[thinkcontext]

He has made many times his money back in the value rise in Tesla and SpaceX.

[stefs]

but the value of tesla and spacex didn't rise because of him having control of twitter, it would have risen regardless.

[shawabawa3]

It rose because of his government access

And you could argue his government access is due to controlling twitter

[xracy]

I mean, this might've made sense if he was killing it fast... but He's killing it with enough time for it to come back as bluesky.