Stephen King compares Elon Musk with a fictional character who cons friends into doing chores and charges them, following Twitter verification dispute
Stephen King compared Elon Musk with a fictional character who cons friends into doing a job that he received as a punishment and then charges them for the privilege.on Friday and has announced plans to make verified users pay $8 a month to keep their blue tick — something which King has disagreed with.
"Musk makes me think of Tom Sawyer, who is given the job of whitewashing a fence as punishment," King on Wednesday."Tom cons his friends into doing the chore for him, and getting them to pay for the privilege."King referred to the novel"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," written by Mark Twain.
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