alarmguy
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Good post, he will always do what he does.Elon is different. He directly injected himself in politics and became face of it. Then, he became face of cuts etc. History won’t be kind to him especially bcs. of slashing programs like PEPFAR which was huge (and that is understatement) achievement of Bush Jr administration.
Celebrities get involved in politics, do fundraising or say stuff on concerts and move on. He became face of it. So he pissed off mostly group that was supporting him (that supposed to stop when he went after those divers in Thailand, who didn’t want to stroke his ego) Now, he is pissing off people that he tried to make some inroads with.
It is impossible to explain here how politics works among people in Europe. They are far more engaged than people in the US, and generally far more educated not only about generally politics, but US politics than Americans. So, when he made that dumb decision to support AfD, he did it because he didn’t understand how hot of an issue AfD is in Germany. He looked at that from American, not German perspective. And Tesla paid the price.
He should just leave Tesla for Tesla’s sake. Space X does good job, so far, in keeping leash on him but who knows.
He should just quit media all together.
Owning Tesla stock is just a portion of his wealth and he is just an employee of Tesla. Over a decade ago he was booted out as CEO of what is called PayPal.
There’s no doubt he can put together companies, but I think for the long-term prospects he moves on to the benefit of the company