Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures

And there are a myriad of long-term issues being put out on display here. Such as the FSD not working (promised "Coast-to-Coast" Full self driving back in 2017). Or the huge uptick in Model3 / Model Y quality complaints (coinciding with these stories about how rushed and impromptu the assembly lines were, such as what is discussed in the article).

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That's the thing. Every year, Elon comes back to the market with a story for why the stock is worth even more money than before (he needs to keep doing this to get another $5 Billion from a secondary offering). Its so predictable.

Elon says "this is the last raise I need". He creates some kind of "Hype Day", be it the battery-swap day, or solar tiles day, or some other promise he has no intent on actually delivering (or at a minimum: has no plans to actually deploy. Ex: Neither Cybertruck nor Tesla-Semi seem to have any concrete plans).

He uses that hype to generate real money for the company. The hype results in real money getting raised (ex: Cybertruck reservations). He uses the Cybertruck reservations to go to the stock market and extract more money from investors (Look at all of these reservations, we'll all be rich), so investors give him money too.

Then 5 years later, everyone has collective amnesia and forgets that Elon promised battery swaps, self-inserting "snake chargers", or full-self-driving to actually drive coast-to-coast, or "solar tiles'. Just in time for the new hype project and everyone hands money to Elon Musk again.

There are entirely valid critiques of Steve Jobs. His overly restrictive and proprietary technology being a major one. But the myth that he was some kind of social monster is ahistorical.

Steve Jobs was very opinionated, honest, and unafraid to tell people what he thought. At times he was overly harsh, no doubt, and sometimes a bit of an asshole. He was "world-class" but not a "world-class asshole" by any reasonable measure. At best, he was a very minor league asshole.

The world-class assholes in business are the people pouring pollutants into rivers/air or selling cigarettes/alcohol/opioids.

Anyone who thinks Steve Jobs was a terrible person has no perspective whatsoever. They're evaluating his agreeableness against the typical bullshitting-manager at Google or Microsoft. People promoted specifically because they're mediocre people-pleasers.

The proof that Steve Jobs was not a "world-class asshole" is that he had many friends. And many people that consider their time working with him to be the height of their career, even if it was also very intense.

There are a grand total of 3 stories about mistakes he made (and eventually made up for) in his entire life, all of which he made in his early 20s or earlier. As much as people try to tear him down, he lived a better, fuller, and more positively impactful life than all but a handful of people in history.

He was superficially obnoxious to many, but fundamentally kind person. He hurt no one and provided incredible value to billions.

If they’re under so much stress and disconnected from the average person, it’s time to stop crowning kings.

None of us have to believe in extreme ownership, and enabling stressed people, as it just leads to abuse.

Not just abuse of individual employees, but society, our personal agency, and environment.

Most people I've talked to cannot accurately articulate the boundary of its operational capability, and there is a growing number of injured and dead "FSD" drivers that seem to have very muddied expecations of what "full self-driving" means.

By your logic, I should leave America, because I am certainly paying a higher tax rate than most of these people. Why is it that some people fetishize the accumulation of vast amounts of capital to the extent that they would support those people fleeing the country to avoid any responsibility for what they've wrought?

All because a few people on Twitter (protip: don't use Twitter) say mean things?

I don't really understand where it is in that natural order of things that, the more money you have, the more unquestioned you should be. That the more money you have, the more you should escape criticism, taxation, etc. What drives presumably ordinary people to put these superhero rich people above any reproach whatsoever?

Some people, for no apparent reason, feel that to be pro-capitalism, we must REJECT any rules, and applaud those who skirt rules they disagree with.

Does this mean, because I have a fast car, I should be able to drive as fast as I want, but someone in an economy car should have to follow the speed limit? That the speed limit is more unfair to me?

I'm very pro-markets, but I don't understand why this means there should be no regulation, and we should be more sympathetic to the rich than to the poor; why the rich should be able to skip out on laws and regulation just to keep them happy.

It's only reasonable to create a socially-useful playing field, and ask that everyone follow the rules.