Nobody has done more to disprove the "Rich people are smarter than everyone else" idea.
Remember a decade ago when he was being lauded as our time's Einstein?
........ Hahahahahahaha
Yeah by his own PR team, mostly, but it was a pretty easy fascade to see through when you actually listened to the man speak. Still don't forgive Dan Harmon for letting him shit on R&M with the eLoN tUsK bullshit. Or Star Trek Discovery for that matter, which happened much later after he had already shown his true face to the world. I know Harmon got paid because he's talked about it, but I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.
See also: Iron Man 2
The one where Tony blew him off and made him look a fool?
I would really like to know how much he spent on getting a passing reference in the least popular ST show of all time.
From what I have heard, that part of the line was not even scripted. The actor ad libbed it in hopes that it might lead to him being gifted a free Tesla vehicle.
EDIT: There was also the completely unrelated reference in a later episode, in which a character mentioned having gone to Musk Junior High School. That may have been a paid reference.
Damn, that's somehow so much worse!
Forgot about the Musk jr high 🤦🤦🤦
And I am proud to have called bullshit on it from day one.
Whoever leads us to the promised land isn't going to have a for profit LLC
Literally had someone saying that earlier today. Something along the lines of "you don't become the richest person in the world without some competency." Just ignore the fact he started on third base...
I genuinely think he's had some sort of cognitive decline.
He went from being merely wealthy to the richest man in the world, and nearly everyone thinking he's a genius, to being hated by nearly everyone and losing money fast.
Think is, he never was a genius - actually quite far off from it
He is just a spoiled boy having luck with gambling the money he got
Looks more like too much Ketamine to me.
Generally the truly smartest people (the ones who actually figure out spaceflight, electric vehicles, satellite internet) aren't the wealthiest. Sure many of them end up pretty wealthy due to stock options, high salaries, companies competing for them and the like. But often at the end of the day they just retire into their wealth and spend their days traveling or living in their huge houses or whatever.
But the CEOs, the politicians, the investors, the self-labelled "Founders," those approaching or in the 1%; For those it's not about making something, doing their jobs, changing the world, etc. It's about winning. They need to feel better than others. And for most of them that feeling never goes away. They rarely retire, and often even when they do they still pull strings from the background (see Bill Gates). Some psychopathic part of their brain makes it so their most important and purest drive is to constantly get to that next target, that next exponential stock valuation, that next acquisition, that next news broadcast they can jerk off to about how they beat someone else in a campaign or about how line go up or whatever.
So when these people are in the middle of their career, they're relatively unnoticeable by most. They're "founding" companies by employing those smarter than them with money they have. They're selling said companies, moving on. They're making shady deals, laundering money, because they are smart enough to beat the system and the system is against them because they're so smart.
But for those that amass enough wealth like Elon, the drive never goes away. But what do you do after you're the richest person in the world? Well, try to become the most powerful person in the world. But you can't just run for office, the ketamine has told you that it's faster to latch onto the recent rapid rise in fascism so you join up with Trump. Who gives a shit what kind of person he is, especially because eventually you'll beat him. He's a stepping stone for now, a boost pad to get you speaking with those who can get you real power, and more money because it's never enough.
But thinking that everything in the world works like a startup, and if you just hire more college grads, crack the whip, take stimulants to stay up to ship the product in a completely inconceivable world (government and social policy) to what you're used to (technology and product development), it all falls apart. And then when you've always had success with the investors siding with you because "line go up," you suddenly don't have success because "line don't go up" in the white house and Trump is getting pressure to find something to cover up giving 2 trillion dollars to the rich and there's no quick fix.
So you do more ketamine, lash out. You always knew trump was a pedo, a garbage human, but it didn't matter because he was a stepping stone, so now, probably earlier than you'd like, you pull out your cards of putting him down in the hopes that you can get that power that you need because the money doesn't matter now, feeling that you beat him is what's most important.
He collected data on all Americans from multiple government agencies, successfully killed multiple investigations into several of his companies, and secured additional government contracts for those companies. Is that what we're calling nothing these days?
And Trump is now threatening to cancel those government contracts. So he's blown everything he's gained (and then some) from his little fling with Trump.
That's what trump does. He threatens. Then in the majority of times he gets distracted or backs down. Those contracts aren't cancelled until they are cancelled.
Yeah he's all TACO when doing things that'll break the economy. But killing SpaceX won't break the economy and he's looking for something he can do that'll make him appear strong. I wouldn't bet either way on this, they're both nutjobs.
None of them are geniuses, it's just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.
Its a human blind spot. A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence. In lower socio-economic levels, succeeding involves a lot of intelligence. Its a fucking struggle. Lots of fish trying to eat each other and take what little resources we have. One fuck up and it's all over. So anyone that is succeeding is also someone that with enough intelligence to foresee pitfalls and avoid them or escape with their wealth.
Those values are used to evaluate the people at the top which are swimming in a whole different pond. The neopotism and safety nets built into the upper crust of society is not part of the calculation that a lot of people use to factor into how they see these people. They still apply the same dog eat dog mentality to the upper crust of society.
honestly wealth at any level requires luck… intelligence barely factors into it. it’s less that 1 fuck up and it’s all over, and more that 1 fuck up without someone to cover it up or bail you out and it’s all over… the wealthier you are, the bigger the fuck up before you or someone else can bail you out:
poor? it’s an unexpected car issue
rich? it’s that you fucked over literally an entire country for years on end in a very public way that gained you very little
Musk learned the hard way why other billionaires don't get directly involved in politics, and buy politicians instead. That way they get what they want, but let the politicians take the heat for pushing through the billionaires agendas.
The problem for Musk is that his ego wouldn't allow him to sit quietly on the sidelines calling the shots. He had to prove how smart he was, and how he was the only one who could fix the government. Now, he's pissed off almost everyone, has lost various large foreign contracts for his companies, drove sales of Tesla into the ground, and is watching Trump undo the "brilliant" governmental cost cutting that he did.
And, his ego still won't let it go, as now he's suggested he'll start his own political party. You just know the other billionaires are looking at him and going "What a dumbass!"
Even if he loses hundreds of billions of dollars he's still richer than like 99% of individual people worldwide will ever be.
I will save the schadenfreude for when he pays for the deaths of men, women, and children who were denied care from the USAID funds being cut.
I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.
Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world
Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.
Do I even want to know what a pajeet is?
You probably don't.
I looked it up after not hearing the term before.
Tap for spoiler
It's a slur for South Asians.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pajeet
Sadly I assumed correctly
It's actually a name. Pajeet is a genuine Hindu name. It's a pejorative, in the same way "Paddy" is both an Irish name and used as a slur for Irish people.
Just say "retard" if you're gonna say it. Lazily censoring it seems worse, because implications.
The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When's the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?
Somehow nobody has mentioned the drugs? And obvious signs of mental illness? Obviously high functioning, but that does not make the decisions less nuts.
Has anybody seen the Johnny Harris video on musk? It was all fun and games until the drugs came out to play.
Generational wealth leads to people who are both extremely rich and extremely stupid.
And Elon Musk is the best example of that in the history of mankind.
Next stop: Build an underwater city.
Hey, you need a taxi?
I wish more billionaires would get on those... and visit WW1 era military shipwrecks...
spoiler
The reason why that is a terrible idea is because during WW1, many naval artillery shells used picric acid as an explosive filler, picric acid reacts readily with metals to form highly sensitive picrate salts that are very sensitive to detonation upon being disturbed. Meaning messing with them even slightly has a significant risk of a massive underwater explosion happening. WW1 era military shipwrecks are strictly off limits to divers for that very reason.
He already has fuck you money so he doesn't give any fucks.
Are you serious? He wants people to think he’s cool SO bad it’s genuinely so pathetic lol. All the other billionaires you could say that. But Elon is so desperate for people to think he’s this funny cool based guy it’s hilarious
Genuinely a retard and yes that is the correct word and stop trying to police it.
Centrist Dems will take him back and anoint him as the leader of the Resistance in a New York minute, if doing so will keep AOC on the margins.
And so conveniently Russia just offered him asylum hahaha 🤣 and publicly 😂.
I wonder if the trump cult also now hates him after saying he was the goat for the last 6 months.
Well.... there is that bit where his companies now have all of the data they were able to loot from the Federal departments he ruined.
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