Summary
Carlos Slim’s telecom giant, América Móvil, canceled $22 billion in planned Starlink orders after Elon Musk insinuated Slim had ties to drug cartels.
The decision, made within hours of Musk’s tweet, costs Musk his main partner in 25 countries and shifts business to Chinese and European competitors, further reducing U.S. commercial influence.
Musk’s increasing political entanglements and conspiracy-laden posts are alienating key business partners and consumers, with potential ripple effects on Tesla sales.
Musk just makes shit up, we all know that. Slim has held the title of World’s Richest Man in past years, and Musk is probably just jealous and feeling threatened, so he’s lashing out.
He does childish things like that all the time. Back when he seemed like he was just an amazing tech innovator, before we knew who he really was, he offered to send a submarine to help rescue those Thai soccer kids who were stuck in a cave. It was impossible, there were pathways where it was nearly impossible for one person to navigate, there was no way for a submarine to do it.
So he was turned down, but he was really counting on being the guy to save the day, so he got pissed, and publicly called the guy who was leading the rescue a Pedophile, claiming that he was only trying to save the kids so he could molest them!
That was the moment that I lost nearly all respect for Musk.