But equally “politics” doesn’t explain the drip in brand value, either. The FIFA World Cup has _dreadful_ politics, advertisers don’t care because it’s still a great brand with a huge reach.
Musk is rich and connected enough to be able to ignore commercial reality for a basically unlimited amount of time, but I seem to recall you were arguing elsewhere on this thread that company owners should only care about the money a company makes.
I think reach was falling because of political pressure.
> I seem to recall you were arguing elsewhere on this thread that company owners should only care about the money a company makes.
I was arguing that the goal of a company is to generate profit. That should be the goal. If business owners do that or don't, it's up to them. And I am not arguing that Musk does a good thing if he doesn't have the profit as the objective.
You say a company should have the goal of generating profit. According to what moral imperative?
According to market economy, not to a moral imperative.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
I’ll appreciate his politics are way to the left of yours and he’s making this point for a left wing audience, but the TL;DR is: a lot of what you’re perceiving as politics here is literally the market economy acting to maximise profit.
His perspective is that _left-wing_ people shouldn’t be conned into thinking this is about anything other than profit maximisation.