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How could he go from being a role model and demigod to so many to such a piece of shit so quickly?

>>huyter+(OP)
He's been known to be a piece of shit for years - recall that he did not found Tesla, he just out lawyered the actual founders and kicked them out of the company. He was already known to have abandoned his kids. All of his companies have had problems with sexism and racism.

The difference is now a large enough number of people are willing to publicly support this trash that he gets people telling him he's awesome for doing so, so he's happy to keep doing so on increasingly public platforms. He's essentially what happens if a reddit edgelord was a billionaire.

>>huyter+(OP)
There's always been a healthy amount of people who knew he was evil and criticized him as such, especially in anti-capitalism circles. From the other side of the fence it seems like him being seen as a piece of shit has been steadily growing for years, and this one incident just happened to provide a nice boost.

He's always been abusive, exploitative, and manipulative. His entire success is one long story of taking credit for other people's work, and just generally being an "I'm in charge" kind of POS.

>>huyter+(OP)
We're so close to collectively learning the lesson that being a piece of shit on the way up shouldn't be ignored until they're on the way down, and there's a connection between that and being deserving of role model status.

>>huyter+(OP)
More money in the bank account changes everything.

>>huyter+(OP)
Except for the ones who still like him, the change mostly came as individuals became more aware of him. People knew his name and he owned companies but not much about him. Like if you worked in autonomous vehicles that came earlier than the big chunk who got to know him better from the Thailand cave sub.

>>huyter+(OP)
Remember the time those kids were trapped in a flooded cave, and when people pointed out that Elon's mini-sub idea was stupid, he responded by calling the guy who actually rescued them a child molester? He's been kind of a piece of shit for a while, it's just that more people are noticing now.

>>huyter+(OP)
Maybe he read a Henry Ford biography recently and is intent on making every one of the same mistakes…

>>add-su+o4
I think by now we would've learned to wait till after someone has died and some time has passed to let any skeletons in closets come out before idolizing them. And yet, even today, statues and buildings are named after the living..

>>huyter+(OP)
Bipolar disease?

>>huyter+(OP)
One mans demigod is another mans role model.

>>huyter+(OP)
More exposure?

>>huyter+(OP)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely

>>romano+w21
They mean the same thing in this context. Demigod isn’t a “bad” god.

>>morkal+Dx
Apparently, someone has already died. https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/amputations-death-wh...

>>huyter+(OP)
People weren’t paying attention. Like, everyone should’ve realised with that Thailand thing, if not before. But with the Twitter stuff, he’s _so_ noisy with his stupid, distasteful opinions that it’s increasingly difficult to ignore.