Doesn't everyone want to share a credit card number, address, and other personally identifiable information with someone funded by #PrinceBoneSaw and is pals with #PutinThePoisoner ?
@maxkennerly@lisamelton It was put very well in one of the early Tech Won’t Save Us podcasts (not sure why I can’t tag Paris Marx, the host of it):
It’s confusing why anyone bothers listening to Musk. He came from a wealthy family and used his influence to take over a company where he now tells people what to do and make — he doesn’t do any engineering or coding, etc., himself — and he’s always, ALWAYS wrong about what he says will happen.
I just wonder what ever happened to needing to be right to get any traction in the media. Increasingly it’s literally, Rich Person Said A Thing!
Zero track record of getting anything right or delivered, from a guy who hit the lottery of being born into a wealthy family, who does zero technical work on anything he wants made or done. Yet again and again, reported on, no matter how batshit crazy his declaration. 🤷♂️
@Hey_Beth@maxkennerly@lisamelton Probably correct. Would that Musk were as easy to ignore as content literally consisting of jumping from one tweet to the next in response to something.
@maxkennerly Hang on—are you implying that the guy who squandered billions by overpaying for Twitter (and then doggedly eroding its value by making the platform increasingly off-putting) is not, in fact, a financial mastermind?
@maxkennerly When X Bank hits bankruptcy along with the rest of X, X preferred creditors will have a big pile of $$$ from which to make themselves whole again.
@maxkennerly He just wants Twitter to be WeChat. But he’d need the Federal Reserve to become intertwined with Twitter in order to accommodate fee-free money transfers which is the only way he can displace banks. His bet is that the US will grant him the privilege for some reason.
@maxkennerly For me as an European, Musk's dream of replacing banks since I first heard about it, is such a laughable claim given how retail banking looks in Europe. Our bank services are light years ahead what US citizens experience: no fee instant money transfers, no fee ATM withdrawals, no checks, everpresent debit cards, low fee currency exchange, etc. There is no way "X as a bank" could even threaten our banks as a competitive service. Musk could learn a ton from us, though.
@maxkennerly "We noticed you have $48,239.22 in your bank account and none of that is in crypto. We would like to talk to you about an amazing opportunity."
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The sheer persistence of Musk's narcissistic motivation for revenge after having an idea slapped down is staggering. Musk has been simmering on this slight for decades and still can't get over it.
@maxkennerly@lisamelton I hate banks as much as the next person, and mine happens to have a fairly checkered past, laundering money for Russian gangsters and the lot, like one is want to do on occasion… and still regardless of the implementation Musk might come up with, I am sticking with the criminals I know.
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