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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
Common Disco L.
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?
A friend of mine has head canoned that the guy from Star Trek was joking about being from Elon Musk University and that it's the old "Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance" gag but in space.
I'm just gonna go with that because fuck it's the equivalent of listing Deepak Chopra as one of the greatest philosophers of the 21st century in your hard sci-fi setting.
There was also an episode of Young Sheldon where Sheldon had sent equations for reusable rockets to NASA, and at the end of the episode it showed Elon buying the equations from NASA.
He was also in South Park, and Rick & Morty. He had a great PR team considering what they were working with behind the scenes. They dressed him up real nice.
Then he fired them, because he didn't like having to wear anything in public. Metaphorically-speaking.
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 🤦🤦🤦
My head canon is that in universe Musk Jr. High isn't a real school and it's just an edgy joke.. the space version of saying you went to the "Adolf Hitler School for Tolerance and Friendship"
You say it for a laugh when you're 14 or acting like it on Space 4Chan
Ah, the Terri Schiavo Academy. I love it.
I still cringe at him being mentioned in Star Trek Discovery...
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
Well done. I'm like most people in that I didn't spot it until he started talking about a subject I knew about. The first Tesla Roadster looked amazing^1^, and then the hyperloop sounded like a cool idea^2^, and then oh wait what's he saying about software development now?
^1^ because its body was made by Lotus
^2^ except it doesn't work
It wasn't anything specific, it's just... the idea of this guy being the real life Tony Stark didn't pass the smell test. Not because he didn't seem bright, but because I couldn't believe ANYONE lived up to the hype that Elon had.
That and... well... the idea of the Private Corporation coming to save the day and guide us into a Utopia sounded way too much like a Libertarian Fantasy.
Yeah, he's like LLMs in that regard. Sounds plausible until it's a subject you don't have much knowledge of, then suddenly turns into a dribbling twat when it's one you do understand.
Then you realise he was an idiot all along.
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.
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 mean, yeah he had a lot of advantage, but he did have to do something right to become the richest man. But making some good gambles doesn't make you a good person nor does it mean you're great at everything.
Maybe he was good at finding companies at the right time to invest, but that means jack about any economic or political acumen. Same reason why we don't want businessmen in politics, being good at one thing does not mean you're good at everything.
He's a modern day Wilbur Ross, with some edits on background and rich-parent launchpad thrown in.
I don't know exactly how much his parents were worth, but his net worth has increased by many thousands of times. That's not "third base", saying he got where he is by luck and nepotism is just wilfully ignorant.
Trump, on the other hand, would have done better if he just left his money in a savings account.
I dunno, man, we could probably get into an entire dissertation about this, but I'm not totally convinced that most of these fabulously wealthy people didn't just fail upwards by throwing the spaghetti plate at the wall; the only difference between them and us is that, often, they start with a lot more spaghetti to throw
Pretty much all of the three digit billions crowd are in tech of some description. There's definitely an element of being in the right place at the right time, but there's also a lot of business skills as well.
A lot of their success seems to be recognising an opportunity before anyone else, whether that's luck or skill is difficult to know.
Most of their success comes from knowing when to fuck over other people
Pretty much everyone in the world has at some point in their lives had some idea or spotted some gap in the market that could be a successful product, but 99% of us don't get to act on that because the rent is due and will be due again next month.
I largely agree with what you're saying, but he's been in the right place at the right time 3 times, and made good on the potential. Maybe he was just really lucky, maybe he had dozens of things going and those 3 are the ones that panned out, maybe he was a genius that destroyed his talents with hubris and drugs. Certainly, having the financial security to take those chances was a big factor in his success, as much as apparently believing that success was all due to his inborn talent was a big factor on his continuing fall from grace.
They hire people to do that for them, don't they?
How do they know who's full of shit and who knows what they're talking about though?
Recomendations from others?
How do you know they know what they're doing?
I don't, I'm guessing.