Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn

[Frankzy]

Isn't he the pr*ck who called one of the potholers who rescued those kids a pedophile ? What a knob.

Yeah but to be fair it was in the middle of a pretty heated argument that he, (the potholer), had started by calling Musk's involvement a PR stunt even though it was the rescue team who had asked him to...

'Developed electric cars'- no he did not.

Developed does not mean "invented", nobody is claiming he invented them but just like Apple didn't invent handheld touchscreen devices we wouldn't be where we are without the two breakthroughs in product development.

 

[ollie989898]

My quote was said in jest, couldn't give a flying f**k what he does with his money.

Nor do I give a flying fudge what anyone does with their money. But I would like to see spangly new prisons, schools, hospitals, naval vessels and fighter jets as well.

 

[ollie989898]

Yeah but to be fair it was in the middle of a pretty heated argument that he, (the potholer), had started by calling Musk's involvement a PR stunt even though it was the rescue team who had asked him to...



Developed does not mean "invented", nobody is claiming he invented them but just like Apple didn't invent handheld touchscreen devices we wouldn't be where we are without the two breakthroughs in product development.

He did not develop or invent the electric car.

He started a company that turned out electric cars. People are then hailing him like some kind of saviour when he had zero experience of car manufacture or even marketing and of course entered the game with no existing production lines, employees or tooling so had something of an advantage against existing players in the marketplace. He is hardly Toyota, is he? Come along now.

And as for twitter, I don't care who owns it. It's ecosystem or content has zero real meaning to me, as it is, like much of the internet, created by the internet itself. It is not a reliable source of information and has no bearing on democracy, free-speech or civil/human rights. It's an online platform where users are obliged to post only within the rules that twitter insist upon.

 

[toquark]

I'm glad you mentioned the war. Post both wars there were some pretty stringent tax rules drawn up that aimed to directly tax the rich.

Yes, post war. The estate he rented from were forced to sell up and he nearly lost the lot.

I agree that the tax situation is mental, but that's a separate discussion from Elon Musk buying Twitter really.

 

[pellow]

Elon Musk was not the inventor of PayPal, nor was he a part of the development of PayPal, we was involved as a shareholder of x.com, one of the companies that merged to create PayPal, and held a stake of PayPal because of that merger, and profited greatly when PayPal was sold to eBay

As for Tesla, you can read it all online how he acquired the business and part of the conditions of the take over was that he would be named as founder

Fair play the guy has made a lot of money, its from shrewd and ruthless acquisition not invention I am afraid

 

[JP1]

"He's a billionaire who doesn't even have a master's degree"?

Wins the "wierdest flex but ok" award today.

The guy who cited that needs Alan Sugar to explain to him in the vernacular

 

[warksfarmer]

'Developed electric cars'- no he did not. The bloke made his money inventing Paypal. Hardly revolutionary. The rest is bluster and BS designed to con investors.

Ok I’ll rephrase he developed the best selling elec car in the world and then watched every other manufacturer play catch up which they’ve haven’t done as of yet really.

 

[Widgetone]

Crazy name, crazy guy.

Never tweeted in my life - left it to the birds - but seems 'wrong' to have these d**k* ( Bezos, Branson et al ) with fat wallets controlling the the way so many ppl think/work/live.
At least Bill Gates seemed to do the right thing, or maybe i'm fooled again..

 

[OGB]

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He is a PHD! (Pretty huge dick!)

 

[oil barron]

Please, explain to me how it is morally right for individuals or companies to radically increase their new wealth during a pandemic and with most Western countries deeply in debt?

What fudging odds does it make how big your pile of treasure is? Is 1 billion not enough?

I don’t think you understand the difference between cash and something you own growing in value.

he has very little cash. All his wealth is the value of Tesla and SpaceX. If he was forced to pay more tax ( which he voluntarily did last year as the largest tax payer in the world), then he has to dilute his shareholding to turn shares in to cash which will ultimately reduce his level of influence and make it a poorer company. So how does that benefit humanity?

 

[Vader]

Musk has been milking the green subsidies for years though to get his car company up and running, he’s hardly right wing.

If your not left wokey, then your right wing by left wokey rules...

 

[ollie989898]

I don’t think you understand the difference between cash and something you own growing in value.

he has very little cash. All his wealth is the value of Tesla and SpaceX. If he was forced to pay more tax ( which he voluntarily did last year as the largest tax payer in the world), then he has to dilute his shareholding to turn shares in to cash which will ultimately reduce his level of influence and make it a poorer company. So how does that benefit humanity?

I don't care. Seriously. I have zero concern for the plight of billionaires. Tax them.

 

[PSQ]

It’s astonishing what one man can achieve in his lifetime with the right skills. It’s like being alive in the time of Brunel watching Elon at work.

Especially as he started from nothing.

Well, apart from his dads Zambian emerald mine, where they "couldn't close the door on the safe as it was stuffed so full of cash".

 

[oil barron]

Especially as he started from nothing.

Well, apart from his dads Zambian emerald mine, where they "couldn't close the door on the safe as it was stuffed so full of cash".

His old man is a bit of a character by all accounts. I think he nipped his step daughter.

 

[bobk]

Does anyone know what use twitter is , I don't , it's bilge

 

[Agriimark]

Cant believe he paid all that money for it when you can get it for free on the app store

 

[Robt]

He did not develop or invent the electric car.

He started a company that turned out electric cars. People are then hailing him like some kind of saviour when he had zero experience of car manufacture or even marketing and of course entered the game with no existing production lines, employees or tooling so had something of an advantage against existing players in the marketplace. He is hardly Toyota, is he? Come along now.

And as for twitter, I don't care who owns it. It's ecosystem or content has zero real meaning to me, as it is, like much of the internet, created by the internet itself. It is not a reliable source of information and has no bearing on democracy, free-speech or civil/human rights. It's an online platform where users are obliged to post only within the rules that twitter insist upon.

For someone that has , in your words “ zero real meaning to me” . You aren’t half getting angry and bashing your keyboard about it

 

[bobk]

For someone that has , in your words “ zero real meaning to me” . You aren’t half getting angry and bashing your keyboard about it

I could get angry with Mr Musk , made a fortune out of rubbish , maybe twitter is a good fit

 

[oil barron]

Does anyone know what use twitter is , I don't , it's bilge

Industrialists have always bought the news. Otherwise it gets run by liberal arts students and talks the population into thinking they need more tax. Most news originates on twitter now.

 

[bobk]

Industrialists have always bought the news. Otherwise it gets run by liberal arts students and talks the population into thinking they need more tax. Most news originates on twitter now.

GB news cuts out the middle man