agreed. my comment wasn't directed at you but more so the entirety of the reddit/meme community that seems to think of elon as a great businessman and one of the people.
I flat out disagree. He robbed people, used unethical business practices, and, as you said, perjured himself to amass an incredible amount of wealth, and now he is giving a fraction of it away to cement his legacy. Even if 95% of his 100-billion-dollar net worth was given to charitable causes—which will very obviously never happen without extreme external pressure—he would still have five billion dollars. What in the fuck is any person, or even a gigantic extended family, going to do that could possibly justify spending five billion dollars on themselves? He is a bad person, and we should not be praising him.
Not to discount you but i thought he had promised a large procent of his money to charity when he dies. This could a be yet another shady publicity stunt but i was under the impression that he did at least say he was going to do it.
At least nowerdays he spends most of his money for good stuff. Still, the question remains, who should be able to decide, what the right thing to do and deserves funding and what is wrong.
Bill Gates realy did good things in my opinion, but other that doesn't mean the amount of influence he should be the only one, to decide what projects need funding. And his foundation has a lot of influence.
Capitalism favors the ones who do shady shit, it's only natural selection. If you want a better systeme you'd have to change legistlation, which is controled by the rich, so yeah...
Used to be a massive POS, now he’s not that bad because he’s a philanthropist but once again, no one should accumulate that vast amount of wealth in the first place. In order to be a billionaire like him, you have to exploit society. It’s just how it works
Still uses massive amounts of slave labor. Plus 50% of all he does is just so people like him. I think it’s telling that even the best billionaire is still mildly POS
He’s garbage. That’s the only real answer. Stealing $100 from everyone around you and “giving back” $10 to the community doesn’t make you a good person, it makes you a successful grifter. We fetishize wealth, and if cultures can have a collective mental disorder, we fucking have one.
Musk is actively striving to save humanity, and, he's producing results. Everyone said he couldn't do it, and yet, he did. He is revolutionizing space flight technology that will prove critical in saving our pathetic species, he's one of the few with eyes looking 100 years into the future, not the present.
People don’t idolize them because they think billionaires give a fuck about them, they idolize them because they’re successful, obviously a billionaire won’t give a fuck about a random person, why should he?
Yeah people shouldn't get emotionally invested in a rich person simply because they're rich, but can we also get people to stop thinking they have Scrooge McDuck style vaults of money? Yeah they're stupid rich, but their net worth is not how much spending money they have.
Well fuck, this is stupid. If you can’t understand something as simple as that, I can’t help you and I really don’t know if you’re trolling or just dumb. You just read about me writing about nuance and then post a pathetic, sarcastic reply where you bring everything to the extreme. At least try to understand what I said will you?
Wow, can’t take a loss? Let’s not get sidetracked or distracted and face what you don’t get head on together. If you want to end the conversation, then conclude it.
That's a shitty comparison, not wearing a mask is law-breaking, but liking a billionaire isn't, and you sound more like those anti-mask Karens if you gonna hate people for liking a billionaire.
Elon Musk has many faces dude, theres one face where he's actively trying to improve our lives, another face where he's an environmentalist and wants to save our planet, another where he's an ambitionist and actively tries unique and radical ideas that no one else would've thought of doing, and then there's his asshole face, where he treats his employees like garbage and insults anyone who criticizes him.
Whichever face you observe from this man, the fact won't change and that fact is he will go down in history books as one of the greats who helped contribute to human progress.
A face of a bipolar man? The guy is an innovator, not a PR. His accomplishments is what alot of people (like me) admire about him, not his public appearance or personality.
Yeah musk gives a shit about me I'm a shareholder and they care about shareholders lmao. Maybe you should become a shareholder and they'll care about you.
They care about your money, mate. You just embarrassed yourself. If you weren’t a shareholder, they wouldn’t give a flying crap about you because you don’t earn them money.
I have never met a person with fans, that actually cares about their fans. Not even the fans care about the person either.
Fans: I love you
Them: No you don't, you love the idea of me; it's called a parasocial relationship, it goes one way and is ultimately destructive; but please, keep buying my shit forever.
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u/flgflg10s Jan 08 '21
stop idolizing and being fans of billionaires. they don't give a fuck about you or people like you