Right moves for whom?

He’s failed at being a likeable human.

what? he's making terrible moves. violating the consitution, mainly. illegally hacking and slashing the federal government without any idea what he's doing, what he's cutting, providing any clear or sensible or accurate reason why, supporting and echoing nazis and white nationalists. i mean he's now the #2 villain to the half of the country with a moral compass. i miss when it was fun to talk about how cool a tesla was and how cool spacex is and now its just miserable to be associated with this guy.

Getting teenagers to siphon your data is definitely a right move in my book

Indeed, it's hard to imagine how he could move any more to the right.

Single point of failure does not mean failure. It's an engineering term that refers to the risk associated with consolidating numerous responsibilities under a single system.

He failed at Twitter.

He failed at getting Tesla profitable sooner. So many job losses resulted in his erratic behavior.

He fails by not doing as well as someone else in his position.

I really thought his inauguration performance (the drugs, the saluting) would finally wake people up to what's going on what Elon Musk.

To anyone who can see it (maybe it takes some relevant life experience), it's patently obvious he's been spiraling down a dark hole of drugs, depression, ego, burn out, and addiction.

He's in a very dark place and lashing out, hurting himself and others, like so many people in dark places do.

The man desperately needs help, as much as someone on the street doing fentanyl does. But being rich can actually make it harder to get clean. Wealth can insulate a person from consequences, which can make it harder to hit rock bottom which is often the wake up call people need to shock themselves out of their problem.

Elon Musk isn't the devil, he's actually good and useful person deep down, but right now he's fighting demons and they're winning.

you now have a significant percentage of the educated populace thinks he's an asshole at best and fascist at worst; this was most not the case before he bought twitter and went full-MAGA

I'd call that a fail.

Also, he was supposed to "save" Twitter and make it into a bigger social network and "everything app" (like WeChat). He instead decimated its revenue and so poisoned the brand that it'll never become an "everything app" other than among the same people buying $Trump coins.

Some failures: the boring company hasn't done much of anything, other than a very short loop in Las Vegas. Do you know anyone who has bought one of his solar roof systems, and when was the last time anyone mentioned it? The hyperloop idea didn't go anywhere. Twitter is worth about 25% of what he paid for it, though one could argue being in control of it is worth $30B to him personally. He also said he was going to get rid of bots, and failed at that.

Obviously, he has had some huge successes too. Tesla has a huge valuation based on the assumption that it was going to win everything, but growth has stalled -- the 18 wheelers are nowhere to be found, the cybertruck is an article of derision to everyone but fanboys. The sedans growth has stalled, in large part due to Musk going out of his way to alienate his core group of buyers -- liberals who think buying a tesla is green. Space-X is doing great things. The jury is out if starlink and thousands of LEO satellites will be a win or a loss.

His final big win is his support of a particular minority group: Nazi's and the Nazi-adjacent. They are platformed on Twitter, and he is doing his best to normalize giving Nazi salutes (at the presidential inauguration no less).

Musk is a ruthless businessman, but make no mistake - when it comes to engineering, he is an empty suit. https://archive.li/bePMk

In the post, I say private individuals can own assets in two ways, as individuals (up to a cap) or through a personal corporation (no cap).

So, if you start a company that becomes huge and your slice is worth $100 billion, or even $10 trillion, you can still own all of that via the personal corporation. And you can invest or spend all of it [almost] however you want.

The difference is that the personal corporation has oversight; I only specify there will be a "board" I don't have anything concrete beyond that.

But the idea is in extreme circumstances, the board can over-rule your money-related decisions. The intent is they will only step in if you are going nuts, but the devil is in the details of how exactly to do that. It might be impossible, but I'd rather see us at least try rather have brain-damaged trillionaires causing unchecked mayhem.

When I make this argument, people assume I want to tax or seize the billionaire's wealth, but no, I'm saying they can keep every penny. Although to be fair, if you did cleave apart people's finances like this, taxing the "personal corporation" higher than the individual portion would be tempting.

If he died tomorrow nothing would change. Sam Altman would just rush in to be the next money playboy with idiosyncrasies.

Most unfireable CEO ever despite very obviously harming the company more than working there. If they replaced him with someone who would actually work for Tesla the Robotaxi/Optimus stories would not longer hold water (probably the first thing CEO would do was reset expectations so they don't get blamed for the lies) and it would quickly be valued way less than Toyota.