Help me dunk on my friend (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Don’t be too harsh he’s a cool dude, but he unfortunately has some capitalism good musk good sentiments that I’ve been trying to dismantle for some time now and i thought I’d ask for help with this.

Or you can just dunk.

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

They didn't earn most of the their wealth though. They got lucky. A person happened to be in a place, at a time, with the resources, and decided to gamble... and their gamble paid off.

We never pay attention to the dozens, hundreds, thousands, etc that didn't have 10,000$ lying around to invest in Amazon stock in 1997.

SOMEBODY was going to make a Paypal, it just happened that Musk was one of the people standing around the place where it started to be put together. But it could have been anybody else.

SOMEBODY was going to make money off of the "building" of the railways that run across the USA, SOMEBODY was going to figure out how to make automobiles in a more "efficient" way, etc. It just happened to be person X as opposed to person A,B,C,...Z.