Who are these "real people" you talk of? I find it interesting in this age of diversity and acceptance of differences, that a "Musk character" can't exist without a constant deluge of backlash, ridicule and grumpiness!

Seriously?

OK, I'll give you an easy one: Google "Twitter layoffs."

Would you have preferred every employee, including the most loyal and hard-working, to lose their jobs too?

That doesn't mean that people's lives weren't upended. You're arguing a completely different point.

No one has a right to have a particular job, if it's no longer deemed necessary.

One might be lucky enough to have such a job.

But if it goes *poof* overnight then the appropriate take should probably be "It was nice while it lasted."

PS: And we can lament the gutting of their moderation team, but that comprised a small proportion of the total headcount cut.

Musk paid billions too much for Twitter. So at least a few of those real people you're worried about, are now very rich.

Companies have layoffs. Are you saying the thousands of layoffs at Meta, or any other tech businesses in recent times, are "good layoffs", but Twitter layoffs were "bad layoffs"? I don't understand your position here. You seem to have an emotional response about the welfare of tech sector people you don't know.

If you have Twitter on your resume, I'd expect it would open a few doors when job hunting. Your concern for their welfare is odd to say the least.

If Musk were doing all of the same things, and much worse, without the culture war stuff attached we would never hear his name.

"I take full responsibility for this difficult decision..."