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Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
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Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Inspiring? Elon Musk's cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, "fuck you, I'm a billionaire." If that's inspiring to spez, I'm feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

So now we know who Huffman wants to be when he grows up. Muskrat. And that wraps up the show for today folks. Time to pull the plug on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I find it quite admirable really, I might just stop paying my bills entirely too and see what happens!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@DarkGamer Sounds like Trump too.

@Skyler

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, I'm quite inspired to live without paying people for their services. I wonder if it will work for someone not yet a billionaire, though it'd make it easier to become one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What really irks me is that Elon Musk is essentially getting away with it too...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Musk is probably never going to have meaningful personal financial consequences for his behaviors, but it does seem like he's destroyed his credibility with all but the alt-reich in record time.