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> People forget that Elon was one of the original dot com millionaires with his success in PayPal.

Who are these people you speak of. On here? Did you do a poll or how did you figure this out. I thought this was common knowledge.

I want them all to fail.

I'll drink to that!

> It is almost as though many folks want Twitter to fail

I don't want Twitter to fail. But if Twitter failing delivers a death blow to the "rich==smart", "leveraged buyouts are good", "billionaires create jobs", etc. beliefs that people have, well, let it fail hard because the world will be better for it.

Have you actually looked at potential statistical correlations between richness and smartness?

> It is almost as though many folks want Twitter to fail

I mean, I do want it to fail. It's an awful thing. Maybe it is better than Meta/TikTok (I disagree, I hate them all, but I especially despise twitter), but I still would want it dead. I want them all dead