A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire.
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
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What? He's done lots of useful things. It's just that he's also a grandstanding narcissist with some disturbing idea. (A bit like #winstonchurchill I'm learning) -
A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map im already disgusted at billionaire, let alone trillionaire.
You could fix so many things, of you decided to realize those millions, billions, trillions into something that's good for the society.
Hoarding riches is evil, why do you think those dragons are always slain in the stories!
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@map
What? He's done lots of useful things. It's just that he's also a grandstanding narcissist with some disturbing idea. (A bit like #winstonchurchill I'm learning)@duncan_lithgow Name one.
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@map
What? He's done lots of useful things. It's just that he's also a grandstanding narcissist with some disturbing idea. (A bit like #winstonchurchill I'm learning) -
A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map Now that Elon has accomplished his personal goal of becoming a trillionaire, I’m sure he will soon be implementing a plan for his wealth to trickle down to the rest of us!
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@map Now that Elon has accomplished his personal goal of becoming a trillionaire, I’m sure he will soon be implementing a plan for his wealth to trickle down to the rest of us!
@Galley Just a little bit more austerity until it trickles down!
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
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@map Now that Elon has accomplished his personal goal of becoming a trillionaire, I’m sure he will soon be implementing a plan for his wealth to trickle down to the rest of us!
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@duncan_lithgow Name one.
@map
Musk has rallied large teams of skilled engineers around ambitious projects with substantial funding. Look, he's an asshole, I get it. I wish people like him, on balance, didn't exist. I just don't buy the polemik statement that he's contributed nothing. -
A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map But what about the solar roof tiles? The Hyperloop? The Robovan? The fact that he takes humanity to Mars in (checks notes) 2024? That time he saved free speech by buying a social media network and aligning it to his worldview? That other time when he reduced the US budget by 2 Trillion dollars?
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map agreed ...
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
That's harsh! What about:
- he personally carried a sink in to a building
- he gave us the term “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
- he provided a free input validation test suite for computer systems, by naming his kid “X Æ A-12". -
@map
Musk has rallied large teams of skilled engineers around ambitious projects with substantial funding. Look, he's an asshole, I get it. I wish people like him, on balance, didn't exist. I just don't buy the polemik statement that he's contributed nothing.@duncan_lithgow @map So, he used his billions of dollars to pay a whole bunch of knowledgeable people to do things that haven't helped any of us and have likely harmed many of us.
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@map
Musk has rallied large teams of skilled engineers around ambitious projects with substantial funding. Look, he's an asshole, I get it. I wish people like him, on balance, didn't exist. I just don't buy the polemik statement that he's contributed nothing.@duncan_lithgow lol. "Rallied large teams of skilled engineers". You are so lost.
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map Less and less, know how to help themselves, let alone their children because of these blatant abuses of power.
It's the proverbial tip of the iceberg, when a single individual, outperforms the transition from 1%, to .01% becoming the wealthiest, compared to the lower 50%. It's NOT sustainable, and major upheaval - WORLDWIDE - is forthcoming.
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@map
Musk has rallied large teams of skilled engineers around ambitious projects with substantial funding. Look, he's an asshole, I get it. I wish people like him, on balance, didn't exist. I just don't buy the polemik statement that he's contributed nothing.@duncan_lithgow @map he's not just an asshole, he's also a cunt!
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A person that did not do a single useful thing in their life and built their empire on exploitation and fraud became the first trillionaire. If you still believe capitalism works and aren't disgusted, I don't know how to help you.
@map I can't believe it took me so long to realize that an economic system based on the accumulation of wealth was inherently flawed. I guess because that's how I was brought up (indoctrinated).
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@duncan_lithgow @map So, he used his billions of dollars to pay a whole bunch of knowledgeable people to do things that haven't helped any of us and have likely harmed many of us.
@clonedhuman
I don't think #tesla is a wasted project. As far as I can tell they've pushed #ev & #battery technology forward and generally popularized #ev as a viable alternative. While #spacetravel is a controversial use of energy I've not heard an argument that #spacex is somehow worse than their competitors. My concessions: his attitude to 'free speech' means he allowed terrible use of #ai #llm. He's allowed #twitter to become a cesspool of problems.
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