<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EFreethought</author><text>Musk did not get trapped into a deal. He thought he was being cute and it blew up in his face.&lt;p&gt;First he was on the board, then he wasn&amp;#x27;t. Then he thought it would be funny to agree to buy Twitter for a price that had &amp;quot;420&amp;quot; in it, then the markets declined and he sued to get out of a contract nobody forced him to sign.&lt;p&gt;Either something changed recently in Musk, he has been hiding the fact that he has had a few screws loose for years, or both.&lt;p&gt;I guess most people just get depressed when they hit middle age. When you are wealthy, you can knock up one of your employees and buy a company on a whim.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rybosworld</author><text>Just to play devils advocate:&lt;p&gt;Musk more or less got trapped into a deal with Twitter that was largely based upon numbers that were fabricated by executives.&lt;p&gt;From his perspective, the way to salvage this mess is layoffs. Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo, and should face consequences. They won&amp;#x27;t though.&lt;p&gt;Lot&amp;#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer. To varying degrees, many of them played a role in the house of cards that is twitter.</text></item><item><author>jef_leppard</author><text>The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and families. The amount of contempt I have for Musk over the way he is treating them is unbounded. We used to think this guy was Bruce Wayne. Turns out he&amp;#x27;s Lex Luthor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter to start layoffs -internal email</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jef_leppard</author><text>&amp;gt; Lot&amp;#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer&lt;p&gt;This is the only part of this I am speaking to because the rest is exactly what is happening. Musk messed up and now a whole lot of people are put in a terrible situation going right into the holiday season. It&amp;#x27;s unconscionable for one of the richest people in the world to behave this way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rybosworld</author><text>Just to play devils advocate:&lt;p&gt;Musk more or less got trapped into a deal with Twitter that was largely based upon numbers that were fabricated by executives.&lt;p&gt;From his perspective, the way to salvage this mess is layoffs. Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo, and should face consequences. They won&amp;#x27;t though.&lt;p&gt;Lot&amp;#x27;s of twitter employees will suffer. To varying degrees, many of them played a role in the house of cards that is twitter.</text></item><item><author>jef_leppard</author><text>The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but these are PEOPLE we are talking about here. They have lives and families. The amount of contempt I have for Musk over the way he is treating them is unbounded. We used to think this guy was Bruce Wayne. Turns out he&amp;#x27;s Lex Luthor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter to start layoffs -internal email</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/</url></story>