I mean, of course, but we’re literally talking about Forbes a financial magazine that has a long history of glazing CEOs when they shouldn’t have been. This is part and parcel to what they’ve been doing for decades now, so it’s a little silly to be like “but they can change their minds!”

For example, Elizabeth Holmes was on the cover of Forbes in September 2015, just months before the lid got blown off about her medical devices being hokum.

I’m all for people changing their minds, but these are media organizations who literally peddle the idea that these are “Great Men” (or women) who we should be looking up to. They aren’t doing the legwork to make sure their claims aren’t farcical, they just repeat them as sacrosanct. Fortunes, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal are all complicit in the entire fraud of CEOs being paid obscene amounts of money and over-inflating their importance, and they’ve been complicit in it for decades. Cheering on one of their writers because they changed their mind when evidence became far too obvious to ignore kind of misses the point entirely about these media organizations and how they enable these charlatans to steal the value of our labor from us and take it as their own.

Man, 8 years ago Elon was my literal hero, paving the road to a new space era and pushing for the solar & EV revolution. I ate that shit up right up till the cave incident.

How times have changed…now all I want is billionaire steak with my fava beans and an appropriated chianti