Hund@feddit.nu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago"'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party"www.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square287linkfedilinkarrow-up1806arrow-down111
arrow-up1795arrow-down1external-link"'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party"www.techradar.comHund@feddit.nu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square287linkfedilink
minus-squareMarshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 days agoMusk hasn’t done any of those things. People who are actually smart did them and then he pretended to do them.
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI mean yeah, obviously. But Musk is very obviously excellent at marketing, and there’s an argument to be made that it was thanks to his marketing that Tesla became as popular as it did, and that that helped pull up the EV market more broadly.
minus-squareMarshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoMarketing from marketers that he hired. He did fuck all.
minus-squarebryndos@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoHe did scam money out of govts and banks to help pay those hires though. It turns out that scamming is the most valued skill in the world.
minus-squareMarshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoNow that is a valid point. Scamming and raping kids is what rewards people in this world apparently
Musk hasn’t done any of those things. People who are actually smart did them and then he pretended to do them.
I mean yeah, obviously. But Musk is very obviously excellent at marketing, and there’s an argument to be made that it was thanks to his marketing that Tesla became as popular as it did, and that that helped pull up the EV market more broadly.
Marketing from marketers that he hired. He did fuck all.
He did scam money out of govts and banks to help pay those hires though. It turns out that scamming is the most valued skill in the world.
Now that is a valid point. Scamming and raping kids is what rewards people in this world apparently