Everyone anywhere near Elon should do one thing: encourage him to get the hell off Twitter. Social media is bad for everyone, but it seems worse for certain personality types.
Please Elon, quit twitter. Even for a year.
But more directly, everyone makes mistakes and we make more rash decisions when we're stressed. At least without Twitter, his spurts of irrationality from being overwhelmed can be kept private and not affect his business.
The root cause of anything is probably something like mortality, human frailty, the laws of physics. We are very far from fixing any of those.
Twitter on the other hand can be changed, and probably some people on this very site work at Twitter and can (and should!) make socially responsible changes. It's not the root cause of anything but it has plenty of influence.
I think we are playing with the definition of root cause here.
But you don't do things just because they have _some_ upsides; you've got to take the balance. And I think it's been a clear net negative - e.g. potentially losing control of Tesla.
disagree