• netwren@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We have to stop identifying ownership with these billionaires and “their work” because it’s not. It’s a team of people who got together to accomplish a mission whether they succeeded or failed. How often is their success just a leader getting out of their way, and how often is failure because leadership was overbearing and “used their authority” to make poor decisions over the group.

    “We” society only ever focus on these individuals and it’s horribly incorrect to do so.

    We need to forget the celebrities and identity the groups.

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      11 months ago

      Hey, if these guys do everything they can to make sure their companies’ “achievements” are considered all their own doing; let’s be fair and attribute all the fault of their failures as well.

      But you’re right, billionaires ride on the shoulders of the people that do the actual hard work.

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      Anytime management gets involved with our work, it’s because there was a monumental fuck-up or because somebody is doing too much micro-management. In either case, it’s thrice as stressful as a normal project that goes slow as shit because everything has to be run by the big person.

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        He spent a bunch of dough on that hair. I believe he is likely aware of his appearance. He is pale and overweight because he spends a bunch of time playing video games, being a nazi in his failing social media site, and (based on this picture) eating french fries.

        Maybe at some point his vanity will compel him to get liposuction or just go full orange man with spray tan and wear baggy suits with ties that are too long. I don’t see him being like Bezos or Zuck and getting into shape.

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        11 months ago

        Meh, Musk has plenty of shitty qualities that deserve criticism, we don’t really need to pick on his appearance.

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      I hate the photoshopped photos of those “celebrities” in the news.

      I mean splash one of the Elon news on this photo mother fuckers!

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    11 months ago

    He’s a successful scammer, for sure, but at the end of the day still a scammer who got fired for incompetence and then got lucky.

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        A scammer who used his money he made through scamming to become CEO, and then to scam even more:

        • Scams his employees by paying too little or not at all

        • Scams his money lenders by breaking their investment

        • Scams his customers by asking premium prices for underperforming products

        • Scams governments out of funding

        • Scams new tech startups by suing them in order to be called a founder

        • Scams every person in every country his companies operate in by not paying the taxes he is owed

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          I wasn’t talking about Twitter.

          SpaceX launched 60% of three global space launch market, I would say that’s pretty damn important. Also, Starlink.

          In any case, it’s obviously the people who work at these companies that are doing the work, not Mr muskrat.

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        Are you going to tell us next that cigarette companies didn’t scam the public when they knew that their products caused cancer and didn’t reveal it because Phillip-Morris was so valuable?

        How about Theranos? At peak it was worth $9 billion. Not a scam, right?

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    Poor Elon trying to tech-bro his way into social dominance by buying a social media platform.

    And to think that only ~6 years ago people saw him as a progressive visionary.

    There is the lesson people. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt.

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      I think that lesson definitely applies to us average folks. But the bigger lesson here is to not trust billionaires. You would have to be a special kind of asshole to reach the status of a billionaire

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    He’s got the money where he can be lazy and still fix his health. Hire a personal chef and dietician. A personal trainer and a gym. Take a minute and get a stylist.

    You’re a billionaire for goodness sake. Buy a top hat!

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          we got a glimpse of that before he got his hair transplant.

          Not shitting on anyone that gets transplants, or decides to embrace their baldness; just shitting specifically on Elon, because fuck his anti-worker, anti-consumer ass.

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      This must be after all that stuff. Without the billions, he’d look like the stereotypical basement neckbeard.

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      You seriously think he has it in him to work hard on himself (or anything for that matter)??

      No shot, instead he would use that money for shit like ozempic, lap band or lipo surgery, etc.

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      11 months ago

      That’s not actually a country song, but I think maybe someone should blow Elon’s nose and then blow his mind. A massive brain aneurism would only benefit the world.