> Three barriers exist for Musk to succeed with his “X” idea. The first is, people outside of Asia don’t like “super apps.”

>Second, as I’ve detailed before, Musk is proving incompetent about media, both social and mainstream.

>And third, Elon Musk is becoming too reviled a person to succeed with an app that works only if nearly everyone buys into it.

>Musk seems to be embracing increasingly radical views — the kind one gets from trolls, shitposters and Russian disinformation agents on 4chan.