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IMHO, probably not; musk seems interested in his own finances, and on pitting people against minorities so that they don’t see him stealing from them.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        16·
        10 days ago

        When ever was musk slamming roadsters together in a garage?

        Just like every other business he was involved, he didn’t build the basics, he just bought himself in

        Tesla was existing before him - when they actually slammed together a roadster in a garage - and with PayPal he only got on after they found their footing (and he fucked up with a competing product as far as I remember)

        Without his start capital, he wouldn’t have had anything.

        I give him, that this is more than just luck, but it’s much more him being known and having money, than him being a business genius - and I don’t even want to talk about the technical side, because pretty much everything he said on this front was bullshit (from pure software, to automation and…ok, I can’t really talk about rockets, but it also wasn’t him who did the actual work)

        In my opinion he is just a parasite, like most so called managers - and CEOs are just the queen of them

        Edit: holy fuck, I made quite some typos…

          • Soup@lemmy.world
            7·
            10 days ago

            He wasn’t slapping them together even metaphorically. He injected huge amounts of cash that enabled the capable people to do their jobs and which allowed the company to grow. Imagine your job getting a huge donation from someone and then that person went around acting like they were sitting in the cubicle next to yours the whole time and even claimed some of your ideas were theirs.

            That’s it. He is a coinpurse that also happens to shout insane racist things on Twitter. Elon Musk is fucking dough-brained moron and one of the big problems with capitalism is how much having money makes it harder and harder to lose the more you have.

          • naeap@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            10 days ago

            Yeah, I get you

            I just didn’t want to give him the credit, that he is the actual genius behind the companies, like he always wants to present himself

            Because every time he talks about something, I at least know something about (like self-driving cars), I know, he is just talking shit and absolutely doesn’t know what the fuck he is talking about.

            So the sentence, that he, like he himself, slaps together cars, was the drop that brought me to that answer.

            Wasn’t really against you, I just don’t want to promote his wanted image of a genius inventor

              • naeap@sopuli.xyz
                3·
                10 days ago

                Well, he is just deeply narcissistic and looks for validation, like you say.

                I don’t know, if there will ever be a moment, that he thinks he’s successful enough to earn love.

                But he is also an adult. And even though he has his emotional problems, he is a very shitty parent to his trans child. And just forwarding all the hate, because he can’t handle his feelings isn’t acceptable.
                He still has a shitload of money and just with that enough power to move things.

                Which is dangerous, when he can influence geo politics that much - see StarLink in war or near war scenarios, and just recently the US election.

                I actually would really like to know, why he is feeling so insecure and needs all this validation, and with what success he would say, that’s it, now I’m fine.

      • YeetPics@mander.xyz
        15·
        10 days ago

        Lmao

        musk invented 0 things.

        Musk engineered 0 things.

        All musk did was market bullshit that doesn’t work/exist. He’s the perfect fit for the GOP.

        Musk has never tightened a goddamn bolt in his life, and if you handed him a hammer he would likely hold it improperly.

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 days ago

        The thing is, global warming isn’t going to make the whole globe uninhabitable, just large parts of it. And Elon is rich enough that it won’t really affect him. He can move to wherever he wants, and can insulate himself from the displaced refugees. So to himself, it doesn’t really matter whether he believes in it, it probably won’t change his actions.

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        It’s truly terrifying how much some people just fall Hook Line and Sinker for propaganda.