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The only reasonable answer is that Musk is intentionally killing Twitter, which is conspiracy theory levels of dumb.
The only other solution is that the richest person in the world (officially) is this stupid. This is almost harder to believe than a conspiracy to destroy twitter.
I wouldn't say stupid, just narcissistic control freak who can't stop touching it. That way it doesn't dismiss him outright. It's a matter of essentializing language - "someone is stupid" isn't so dangerous vs "someone does something stupid" lets you recognize the emperor has no clothes but can still be dangerous. Reality is more complex than "xyz is stupid/evil", and falling into those patterns of thought does a disservice to yourself.
I think stupidity is more complex and contextual, one can both be smart and dumb AF at the same time, the duality of dumb.
Antivax nurses do exist.
That is so Zen. Beautiful.
I have a suspicion that all of the layers of "Elon management" at Tesla and SpaceX have given him the idea that he's a brilliant innovator; he gives them all his outlandish ideas and they get filtered into (normally) reasonable plans, and they guide him down the path they want him to go down while he thinks the good idea is his. And those companies are both doing well, so clearly his style works, at least in his mind.
But then he bought twitter, which didn't have anyone devoted to protecting the company from him, and it's all going to shit.
Like my uncle Gump used to say: "Stupid is as stupid does."
Actually after thinking about it, the stuff he's doing to the company is just batshit insane. It has to be intentional. He's on a campaign to kill the company for the tax write-off and because he has some kind of personal beef with it. If he were to just fire everyone and shut down the servers he wouldn't be able to take the write-off. The company has to die a slow death for it to look legit.
Why is that hard to believe? The mega-rich are not notably more intelligent than anyone else, they just started decades ago with inherited wealth and got lucky early.
Oh this isn't meant to imply that rich people are smarter than anyone else. More hard to believe in that I don't want a man with such immense power and wealth to be absolutely stupid. The obvious best choice is no one having a billion dollars.
Ahh, so less "hard to believe" and more "unpleasant to believe", that's fair.
For sure, either he's destroying it on purpose of he's that stupid, either one is just way out there.