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Comment by mrtksn

2 days ago

> devoted so much effort to an economically completely infeasible mode

Just like economically infeasible Twitter, it has tremendous PR value. There is a huge economy revolving around people annoying other people just for a glimpse of their attention. This captures the attention and pleases people. Other car companies should start getting creative too.

> Just like economically infeasible Twitter, it has tremendous PR value

The power to shape governments to his liking is worth a lot more than what he paid for Twitter.

  • He got the power to shape the US government because he spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump through PACs and was Trump's single largest political donor by miles

    The twitter purchase likely did little either way

  • The power to shape governments to his liking is exactly why we've got to demand those governments to rein him in.