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Can we shatter this bullshit about tech bros who struck it lucky with some early dotcom investment being geniuses?
I'm fucking tired of hearing about how these barely functional assholes who chanced into luck once are geniuses or in any way genuinely earned their wealth. They're all fuck heads that spend most of their time trying to justify why they're entitled to their lavish lifestyles...
In fact, can we just stop using the term genius? Some people are pretty good at some shit, but the elitism associated with that term is fucking toxic.
Elon inherited apartheid wealth and then got lucky in addition to that. He would have a fine life without his "investment genius" or how they call it.
You support me = genius. You don't support me = asshole, woke, liberal, loser, commie, ect. Ass kissers at their best.
No he does not use terms like that. He gives them a creepy nickname that is leaking mental illness and presents it as a teasing joke from grandpa but his demon child mercernaries instantly make it into a hateful call to violence
Genius = born into wealth
These pricks were both born on third base and think they hit a triple.
Only a Batchelor degree and college drop out. Genius seems to be a broad term nowadays.
Not even a STEM BSc IIRC.
Nope. And his degree was awarded after he stopped attending after a large donation by daddy. No one in the physics programs remembers Elon in class. Only official statement they will give since transcripts are not public.
Really? That means I’ve accomplished far more academically than this billionaire???
Bill Gates actually understands com sci
It goes beyond that and is largely related to the same anti-intellectual propaganda we have had shoved down our throats for decades (basically since reagan).
Think back to basically every single movie/tv show with a "smart" character. Invariably, they are "cool" and have anti-authority tendencies. And, invariably, there is a character who is a conventional nerd who is actually an idiot compared to this cool kid with an ice rink in their basement because they pronounced a word wrong or got a single question wrong.
And what has that done? It has raised generations of people to value "genius" over "smart" where someone who is quirky and weird is WAY more intelligent than the person who actually just sits down and reads things. THOSE people are losers.
And what does a balding techbro with hairplugs who has driven double digit companies into the ground have? That's right, he thinks he is a living meme and thus must be a genius.
Had me until then, he has lots of bad qualities, the above isn’t one of them.
The term genius might have its place, but IMO it has nothing to do with how good you are at making money or exploiting your workers. Like in the world of investing maybe you could argue Warren Buffet is a genius, but that certainly doesn’t go for every asshole that’s hoarded millions to billions of dollars.
It’s also overused in most cases anyway. Much like saying something is “awesome” when it fills nobody with awe, saying somebody is a “genius” usually means as little as “pretty good, even solidly above average” rather than somebody who taught us something new about the world or ourselves.
I would even say he had a good run of picking good ideas and making them work. But I think he's too rich and crazy and out of touch now, he has lost his drive.