• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    it’s hard to really prove he’s a fraud at spacex and tesla and pretending to be some super genius

    I mean, even this isn’t very hard. My relative used to work at SpaceX, and it’s an open secret that the company has a team of people dedicated to keeping Elon away from the engineers. Like as soon as he steps out of his office, there are multiple people whose sole job is to push paperwork and “problems” (read: “literally just basic decisions that anyone in middle management could make”) in front of him to keep him completely distracted with inane and inconsequential things, while also making him feel like a big important decision maker.

    All so he doesn’t have time to wander down towards the engineers. Because if he does get to the engineers, he’ll inevitably try to one-up them with some “why are we doing it this way that I’m too dumb to understand? I don’t like that I can’t understand it. We should do it this dumb way instead” decree. And now the entire company is going to grind to a halt until the engineers can redesign the entire system to fit his new dumb design.

    Like he desperately wants to fit in with the engineers, but the only way he knows how is to try and flex his (nonexistent) technical expertise. So the company has hired people specifically to prevent that scenario from ever happening.

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      while i believe all of this, it’s not super easy to prove.
      a livestream fail is undeniable, complete proof that he’s a fraud in video games….
      and it does lend credence to the idea that he’s a fraud in everything else.