I think many people underestimate Elon. Laugh all you want at him, he did start companies like PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI and Neuralink. No small feat.
He’s a nutter, but unlike SBF, he certainly knows what he’s doing and knows how to get things done.
SBF on the other hand, a genius too (I mean you got to be - accumulating billions in liabilities and blagging your way to get billions more in personal loans, the whole time without having even an accountant let alone an accounts dept), wrecks people’s lives without a hint of remorse. It’s just game theory for him. Pure evil.
Elon, though evil too, I think has some redeeming qualities and a moral conscience that can be salvaged.
Let’s see what happens but downsizing an over-bloated and overvalued company is what many would do, however I didn’t expect the execution to be so swift, ruthless and almost merciless. They did get their severance package of 3 months and in this sort of economic climate, who wouldn’t take it ?
Some Ukrainian/Afghan refugee or an Indian minimal wage worker would gladly do their jobs for a quarter of their salary and will work 24 hours for you too. While the West and the Unions cry human rights abuse, they see it as survival. And Elon strikes me as the type who will exploit that.