Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Elon Musk is set to come out this fall, repeated his narrative about the Tesla CEO as a kind of flawed genius.
Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Elon Musk is set to come out this fall, repeated his narrative about the Tesla CEO as a kind of flawed genius.
You don’t become a billionaire by caring about people.
And I believe he was raised wealthy too. Extreme wealth fundamentally disconnects you from most people.
He was a pampered prince among priviliged white children. In white supremacist Pretoria south africa. So he’s doubly detached and dysfunctional.
Emerald mine with heavy labor exploitation was involved, too, IIRC
It was, that he denied and even put a reward up saying if people could find the proof.
Then his dad came forward saying it was true.
lol threw his own kid under the bus for a reward he didn’t need
Lmao. Did he give his dad the reward?
He corroborated it himself in the press at one point, before a lot of the bad press about him got out and the mine story started to become a liability for him.
And yet millions of naive people around the world still love that psychopath.
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They’re basically money junkies. They never got past puberty because their only drive is to secure more for themselves, which is like pre-proto-primate logic.
It’s nothing different than the fent addicts I see on the daily.
If Elon is on steroids, he’s using them wrong.
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Okay that’s a little hyperbolic. There are penty of juicing bodybuilders that are the nicest people on the planet. Unless musk is blasting trenbalone of course then sure.
I agree, but I want to imagine a world where you could.
One really contradicts the other.
A person can only generate so much money by not caring about other people. If they cared about other people, they would spend their money to improve something instead of hoarding it for themselves or distribute it evenly between themselves and those they exploit.
An empathetic person would know that they have no right to have that much money.
They would be able to see that they were lucky in an exploitive system and they would understand that their work is not worth more than the work of other people.
You can’t be rich and be a good person at the same time, because money is generated by exploiting labor and you can only generate more money by exploiting more work.
In the very end this money belongs to the people who carried Elon Musk through his life. He did not invent those rockets. He did not program those cars. He did not dig the lithium for the batteries under extremely dangerous conditions out of the ground while being paid peanuts. What he contributed to his wealth is the willingness to exploit other people.
If only meritocracies were real