“Hmmm… It’s really hard to say… On one hand, we have someone responsible for many toxic comments and massive loss in a company value. On the other hand we have someone responsible for millions of death. I really cannot decide which one is worse.”
I know we live in a childishly partisan world now but musk isn’t even close to the same level as Hitler. He’s far from even being the worst current American ceo if we’re actually honest about reality, the guys a dick but we can say that without pretending he’s especially exceptional.
In actual negative impact on society, his companies are really no worse than any other big tech company, IMO. He just puts himself in the public spotlight more than the other CEOs.
He is exceptional in being a dick, though. Of course not on the Hitler level, obviously. But it always gets me when people think his weird tweets are really the worst he’s done.
True, but if you’d look at social media we might judge that they helped in a large part with the spread of fascism we see today. If that fascism leads to massive genocide there is a question: If the CEOs of social media deliberately or out of “malicious ignorance” help with that, aren’t they at least partially responsible? Capitalists wield immense power while shielding themselves by arguing simplistic ethics like “I own it so I can do what I want, and people can say what they want” while obscuring predictable consequences of these systems.
And the current rise of fascism could easily create a much higher body count via nuclearwar.
For example, if Elon Musk somehow manages to get Trump elected by manipulating Twitter (unlikely now) and Trump destroys the world, he’d be similarly guilty as Goebbels.
PS: I’m not really seriously arguing this, but I think this isn’t completely without merit.
“Hmmm… It’s really hard to say… On one hand, we have someone responsible for many toxic comments and massive loss in a company value. On the other hand we have someone responsible for millions of death. I really cannot decide which one is worse.”
That’s really ignoring all the direct nasty stuff Musk did.
I know we live in a childishly partisan world now but musk isn’t even close to the same level as Hitler. He’s far from even being the worst current American ceo if we’re actually honest about reality, the guys a dick but we can say that without pretending he’s especially exceptional.
In actual negative impact on society, his companies are really no worse than any other big tech company, IMO. He just puts himself in the public spotlight more than the other CEOs.
He is exceptional in being a dick, though. Of course not on the Hitler level, obviously. But it always gets me when people think his weird tweets are really the worst he’s done.
True, but if you’d look at social media we might judge that they helped in a large part with the spread of fascism we see today. If that fascism leads to massive genocide there is a question: If the CEOs of social media deliberately or out of “malicious ignorance” help with that, aren’t they at least partially responsible? Capitalists wield immense power while shielding themselves by arguing simplistic ethics like “I own it so I can do what I want, and people can say what they want” while obscuring predictable consequences of these systems.
And the current rise of fascism could easily create a much higher body count via nuclear war.
For example, if Elon Musk somehow manages to get Trump elected by manipulating Twitter (unlikely now) and Trump destroys the world, he’d be similarly guilty as Goebbels.
PS: I’m not really seriously arguing this, but I think this isn’t completely without merit.