Are people getting tired of all the billionaires and their billionairing?

Like Nigel Farage?

What do you think of Gates? Do you like him? Do you dislike him? Is he unfairly vilified?

Does his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein not matter because there's 'no evidence he did anything wrong'?

At the very least, Elon Musk has singlehandedly blown up any idea that just because someone is wealthy, they should be listened to.

Incredible to watch it fall to pieces in literal days after he took over. Stunning, and depressing.

What's even more depressing is so many of his supporters are those who support extreme ideals such as Trumpism, Brexit etc and categorically, absolutely resisting any meaningful action in moving away from fossil fuels.

Future historians, or whatever is left of them, will read about this period in history and cringe at the decisions of so many to act against their own best interests. We, as a society, will look so primitive to them.

I don't buy it.

Nothing about how the transition of Twitter from where it was to today looks planned, insightful or logical.

The fiasco of 'comedy is back to stop-being-mean-to-me, telling people to vote Republican, firing people who showed him how he was wrong on Twitter, firing people and then asking them to come back, telling people to sign up to slave labour and whatever the hell is going on now with forcing people to come back to the office and then locking everyone out of the office.

Sure Twitter may survive, but if it does, it will be in spite of him rather than because of him. He's also done massive damage to the Tesla brand.

This particular Billionaire lives his life like people and companies are his playthings to acquire and treat as he wishes, he's done more to advance the argument against allowing individuals to accumulate such massive wealth than anyone else before him.

He could have had the same result without it appearing like he had no idea what was going on.

I didn't even mention the $8 debacle and the impact fake accounts had on massive businesses.

Twitter may well survive, it likely will in some form. It most definitely will not be because of any of Musk's ingenuity that he has shown to this point. Maybe if he does replace himself as CEO sooner rather than later then that might happen without much more impact, but if it does, it will only reinforce the point of how clueless he has been.

FFS, if he wanted to create a Twitter 2.0 powerhouse, why spend 44B on anything that already exists. This is literally a Simpsons episode in real life.

Brand recognition as the reason why he didn’t just start another company offering the same service, the sector already has a dominant brand, Twitter.

Whether that brand is worth 44B, well that’s a different matter, time will tell. If it tanks as you expect, then the answer will be a resounding No, if he manages to make Twitter profitable, then in the years to come the answer may well be Yes.

I think it's this that I am more tried of than billionaires billionairing to be honest. It's immensely dull reading circle jerk tripe that's spouted about these bozos by sycophantic arse lickers who pull the stomach out of themselves hero worshipping people who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

As for Musk, and I've said this numerous times, he was simply a guy who was in the right place at the right time and also had the cushion of wealth to begin with, which goes a long, LONG, way to being able to take a punt on projects and schemes that might not go one's way. The way some of a certain cohort go on about this guy, you'd think he was some sort of renaissance man genius who got to where he is because of his super brain. When the reality is a vastly different landscape.

As we've seen recently, his decisions leave a lot to be desired and one suspects that that he's high on the smell of his own farts at this point.

And as you say, all Bezos did was set up an online bookstore, which he wasn't the first to do by any stretch of the imagination.

In short, these people got lucky and in that respect fair play to them. But where that fair play nod ends is in their subsequent actions like paying staff subsistence wages while they, themselves, get sweetheart tax breaks, or flitting away obscene amounts of money on a vanity purchase and then firing 1000's of people who actually need to work in order to live.

That kind of crap doesn't deserve any respect at all.

You wouldn’t enjoy spending money if you had loads of it? You don’t come across at all bitter Tony, if I had billions I wouldn’t give a damn what anyone else thought either, it might surprise you that no one really cares what you yourself spend your money on.

I admit my Latin isn’t what it used to be since my first year in secondary school, so I had to look that one up.

Who cares if Musk or anyone else wants to blow their billions on vanity projects, it’s their money. Musk might well take a loss making company and turn it around, it’s too early to tell. But saying that billionaires made their money simply because they were lucky is bollox. You seem bitter because people admire people who have been extremely successful and discount both their talent, drive and a relentless will to succeed. Personally I think their success is to be admired, though I wouldn’t necessarily admire them as human beings.

Just realised you are the guy who likes to use “spunked”, it’s a strange word to use in that context, but hey ho.

He seems to be trying to turn around a loss making company with a hugely overpopulated workforce, not uncommon after a buyout of loss making businesses. Time will tell if he succeeds.

No doubt luck plays a part, but you create your own luck by having the right product at the right time and knowing how to make it work. Maybe you are bitter because you aren’t lucky and that’s your gripe. Either way, they can’t be the only lucky people in the world, so there is more to it than that.