There are a couple of society-busting, detrimental errors that mainstream media continues to perpetuate. They are hesitant to call attacks against the LGBTQ+ community hate crimes. They mistake the sheer stupidity (via The Guardian) of the former President for cleverness, and they laud tech billionaire and Mega-Chad Elon Musk as some sort of Reverse Flash version of Steve Jobs or Charles Babbage. After the success of Paypal and Tesla, the media propped Elon Musk up, even though he had nothing to little to do with the development of those products. Sure, he helped design the Roadster (and fired one into space), but that’s not an everyday occurrence. But being the public face of a successful company has its benefits. The main one is the perception of “good” leadership. Business 101 Image: AI-generated But there’s a lot more to running a successful business than the appearance of leadership, as Elon Musk has found out with Twitter. Or has he? It’s very possible that we mistake his intent to create a platform where he can prance around as a tiny king for wanting to better Twitter and turn it profitable. Musk applied his only useful skill to Twitter the moment he was forced to purchase it: laying off staff. And that right there is a massive failure of Business 101. Not only firing support staff that kept the machine running but assuming that one person could be the funnel for all technical and practical decision-making. If anything, Musk’s singular leadership of Twitter…Is Elon Musk actually good at business?