• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      A scammer who used his money he made through scamming to become CEO, and then to scam even more:

      • Scams his employees by paying too little or not at all

      • Scams his money lenders by breaking their investment

      • Scams his customers by asking premium prices for underperforming products

      • Scams governments out of funding

      • Scams new tech startups by suing them in order to be called a founder

      • Scams every person in every country his companies operate in by not paying the taxes he is owed

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        11 months ago

        I wasn’t talking about Twitter.

        SpaceX launched 60% of three global space launch market, I would say that’s pretty damn important. Also, Starlink.

        In any case, it’s obviously the people who work at these companies that are doing the work, not Mr muskrat.

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      11 months ago

      Are you going to tell us next that cigarette companies didn’t scam the public when they knew that their products caused cancer and didn’t reveal it because Phillip-Morris was so valuable?

      How about Theranos? At peak it was worth $9 billion. Not a scam, right?