Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims - eviltoast
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    That the costs scale down the more massive the production. If you’re in the industrialized world, the money you pay for food is almost all profit. Not the cost of agriculture, not the cost of harvesting and packaging, not freight time, maintenance and fuel, not logistics and accounting. Profit.

    Most of our money spent is bribes goes in the pocket of each of the capitalists along the way taking their bit of rent.