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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

He is one of the richest people in the world.

The more news about billionaires like this pop up, the easier it will be to argue that maaaaaaaybe we shouldn't be giving them that much power in society.

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This just makes him more famous and more powerful.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I think ridicule is the most powerful weapon against billionaires, and all these articles do is create and spread more ridicule. There comes a point where bad advertisement is just bad advertisement.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't. His would that even work? Please explain

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

How much more powerful can he be? He'd be more powerful if he was more subtle about stuff and people weren't ready to fight against him.

It's much better to effectively use him as an argument for why billionaires shouldn't exist. Fuel for the fire of change.

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