11-30-2023, 02:09 PM
I don't think his statement was regarding "wokeness", per se, just general cancel culture and censorship. Any way, my respect for him just grew a good bit. If he had followed it up by saying the quiet part out loud, something like "money is an illusion and a control mechanism and banks create it out of nothing" I probably would have came a lil lol.
Judging by some of the netosphere comments, I don't think people quite grasp that 1) Elon holds enough Tesla stock that he could single-handedly keep X running pretty much as long as there is any value whatsoever to his stock and "money" in general. And 2) the trajectory of X is probably to be as AI based and self sustaining as possible, with little need for "money" from advertisers or any other source. Keep the hardware running, hire a few people to monitor it all and keep the power/internet on and that's all it will need. Also, since they plan on X being a financial platform (along with everything else), skimming even a fraction of a penny from any transaction would be more than enough to pay operating expenses after the automation is complete. Elon can support the platform's development on his own until that point, hence why "go fuck yourself, Bob (Iger)".
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