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Comment by radu_floricica | Hacker News Reader

I mean, what's the point of getting where he is and shutting up just to make random people happy?

To efficiently reach his target goals?

It would be such shame if Starship never flew because he squandered $45B on Twitter and made a lot of political enemies being an edge lord online..

That’s his money, not SpaceX money. Do you think he pays for everything out-of-pocket?

How do you think "his money" works. How do you think credit works on this scale? Musk making a $45B investment in Twitter obviously carries risk to SpaceX.

If I was the richest person on the planet and still gave any shits whatsoever about making random people, who often probably have poor values themselves, upset online, then I would be living my life extremely wrong

Transphobic and and similar problematic tweets aside

Making random people happy means having less people unhappy about you which increases your global status, which gives you more ability to extract resources from the world to augment your goals. Yeah, it's very long reasoning, but it is why most people try not to offend others.

Because it would just be nice if he shutup ?

Him shutting up does the same thing as you ignoring him, for you. Him shutting up is not fixable by those who actually want to hear him.

TL;DR: No, you shut up and never say that extremely selfish and destructive thing again.

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