…smh our military is doomed why are we going to war instead of defense we do not want war we want to defend homeland.
I’m not a scientist or politician or wizard or anything, but I bet Elon will manage to scrape up some products and services to help the USA with future warfare; very expensive products.
I have a feeling that we will pay for those products and services for many decades with the help of Vanguard and JP Morgan Chase, and that we will appoint their staff to the Fed to control our monetary policy.
I predict that those products and services will be unsatisfactory
And I predict that politicians, after the check clears, will declare how successful these products and services are.
Yeah, being a CEO is clearly not the full-time job that requires marathon-level endurance that the Acela class likes to paint it as.
He’s the CEO of five companies. If he really works 100 hours a week like he says (and maybe ketamine does make that possible), that means being a CEO is at best a part-time job.
Yup. 100%. People have been saying for decades that being a CEO (often expanded out to CxOs, too) is like being some kind of super-star athlete and that people in those positions get paid many many many multiples of the average wage of employees they oversee because they are just operating next level and work so fucking hard and so many hours, too.
Virtually every time Elon hits the news we are all reminded in quite stark terms what complete bullshit that narrative was.
Somehow Musk has time to shitpost on Twitter for hours, run the US military and be the CEO of like 5 companies. Guess he saves a lot of time by not spending any time with his children.
Because appointing him head of DOGE was so successful… This is the absolutely dumbest fucking timeline possible.
Thing is DOGE was successful at destroying many government agencies. That was always its intended goal, chaos.
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
Elon is the one with power and Trump is conceding to this fact.
Since the LAST Musk task force went so well…
It got a lot of people killed so… relavent experience?
I’d rather Elon be deported back to South Africa.
Gotta sell all those ‘bulletproof’ cyberturds somehow
Our new military might.
A manchild with an inferior complex. What could go wrong.
gotdam, thought I bit the onion
Not in this timeline. There is no onion.
If I create an SAT analogy from that quote and the other Matrix quote that inspired the vulture capital firm Bending Spoons, I have a great idea for a company.
We can call it Biting Onions. And instead of using capitalistic principles to enshittify, it will subvert capitalistic principles to block enshittification.
For example:
- Buy distressed patent assets or R&D explicitly to dedicate them to the public domain.
- Counterbid evil investors for tools or platforms to avoid extreme harm from other bidders (e.g., imagine a counterbid for Twitter).
- Seed-fund unions in underleveraged, corporate wage-theft-common industries, requiring only that the new unions to contribute parts of their dues back to the fund to accelerate more seed-funding of unions.
- Venture capital tech startups with explicit caps on executive pay and barriers on anti-human/customer/citizen conduct (e.g., a lowest-to-highest-paid-employee metric or prohibiting SaaS/subscription fee business models baked into contractual funding requirements).
Some of this requires altruism and is likely money-losing (I mean, Twitter was never worth what Musk paid for it, unless you factor in the “value” to an evil sociopath), but like Valve, I think companies that have a set mission and that reach stability would actually have competitive advantages. After all, “suck blood until host dies” is a model that is self-sabotaging in the end.
Seed-fund unions in underleveraged, corporate wage-theft-common industries, requiring only that the new unions to contribute parts of their dues back to the fund to accelerate more seed-funding of unions.
TBH unions already do some of this, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_(union_organizing) More would be good, of course!
You magnificent bastard!
I’m in. When’s the IPO; or can I get in during the alpha funding round?
Step 1: Be a billionaire.
But I kid, if I was a more effectual person I could essentially recreate Kickstarter to crowdsource this with little initial investment.
Also Palmer Luckey just flying under the radar (beneath the bloated corpse-like Hindenberg of Musk’s profile).
I suppose Luckey should have been the first horseman of the tech apocalypse, since back in pre-timeline-flip 2016 he was bragging about spending to elect Trump via shitposting, back when we all at least still thought Musk was sane( r ).
Sneak peek at Elon: "More bots on twatter is the future of war! US government, please buy my bots. "
US government: OK, here’s like 8 Billion dollars.
Welp, guess that’s gonna be bankrupt in 6 weeks or less. What a fucking friendless loser Musk is.
This country gets more pathetic every day.
