it’s nice to imagine musk as incompetent but he did manage to become the richest person in the world, i dont think that happens by accident. although we see through him plenty of people do not, and if those people themselves are powerful then it doesn’t in the end much matter what we think
he made up the emerald mine to sound cool, he is way more pathetic than that, he just lucked into money with paypal really. anyway i’m not claiming he’s actually smart or anything, but not every grifter succeeds grifting this much
Musk is good at scamming the government. He also started with lots and got lucky. His dad was the competent evil one.
There are studies that prove being too wealthy rots your brain. Plus the incredibly reckless drug abuse. So even if he was competent before, you can count on that being diminished. The threshold for that is actually shockingly low; in the low 6 figures 2010s usd.
yes, i agree with all that. but lots of people, maybe millions of them (one in a hundred people being an asshole is not really overstating it…) would love to scam the government and don’t succeed as much
And he didn’t get to that scale by being good. He got there by starting rich. By knowing the language and cultural values of high-umami homonids, and having a shit ton of daddy’s money to do it. Any skill was his father, errol musk, either in exploitation or the use of his dick. Baby Leo’s just reaping the rewards, with about the same level of scamminess youd use you get fake food stamps and build a game breaking d&d character from an online guide.
i think that’s kind of a dangerous attitude. plenty of nasty fucks have a couple million dollars, every single small-town republican politician and racist car salesman in america would love to do what musk has done. it’s not good to underestimate your enemies. on the plus side he is becoming deranged enough to take himself out sometime soon (fingers crossed)
it’s nice to imagine musk as incompetent but he did manage to become the richest person in the world, i dont think that happens by accident. although we see through him plenty of people do not, and if those people themselves are powerful then it doesn’t in the end much matter what we think
TIL being born on third base of an emerald mine with a diamond encrusted silver spoon up your ass counts as “competence.”
he made up the emerald mine to sound cool, he is way more pathetic than that, he just lucked into money with paypal really. anyway i’m not claiming he’s actually smart or anything, but not every grifter succeeds grifting this much
Is that so?
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those links basically say exactly what i said lol
“He denies it. He’s not beating the allegations.”
Oh. You believe Elon. Copy.
ETA: this.
Musk is good at scamming the government. He also started with lots and got lucky. His dad was the competent evil one.
There are studies that prove being too wealthy rots your brain. Plus the incredibly reckless drug abuse. So even if he was competent before, you can count on that being diminished. The threshold for that is actually shockingly low; in the low 6 figures 2010s usd.
What are those studies?
A big researcher in the field is paul piff. Thats a starting point.
yes, i agree with all that. but lots of people, maybe millions of them (one in a hundred people being an asshole is not really overstating it…) would love to scam the government and don’t succeed as much
Yeah, most people don’t get lucky.
It’s really really not difficult.
And he didn’t get to that scale by being good. He got there by starting rich. By knowing the language and cultural values of high-umami homonids, and having a shit ton of daddy’s money to do it. Any skill was his father, errol musk, either in exploitation or the use of his dick. Baby Leo’s just reaping the rewards, with about the same level of scamminess youd use you get fake food stamps and build a game breaking d&d character from an online guide.
i think that’s kind of a dangerous attitude. plenty of nasty fucks have a couple million dollars, every single small-town republican politician and racist car salesman in america would love to do what musk has done. it’s not good to underestimate your enemies. on the plus side he is becoming deranged enough to take himself out sometime soon (fingers crossed)
Like i said: he got lucky. Back in the 90s. So it went from a few million to a few hundred million/few billion.
like i said, i agree completely, but he was not the only person with a few million dollars in the 90s
No, and lots of them got lucky.