Well, ever since stock buybacks were re-legalized and other safe guards that once incentivized the health of the company, not only quarterly share holder value. Publicly traded company wasn’t always synonymous with strip mining value. Reagan was an accelerant on that decay for sure.

Agreed, though I don’t think Thiel is involved in Paypal anymore.

The best poll on what people think of Elon.

Could MS suck any worse? It’s like they want people to not use their products. Capitalism is the ouroboros.

He’s incapable of complex thought. Tariff use is supposed to be nuanced and in line with price differences between American production costs and foreign ones. They are meant to make American products competitive but balanced to limit inflationary side effects. Not done in big dumb across the board numbers like this. He’s fucking stupid.