Dude. You aren’t even talking about Musk. You are entirely talking about what his well paid PR team has made you think of him.
The dude hasn’t done fuck of shit. Just used his money to help others build shit he never bothered to acquire the skills for. Reusable Rockets? That was Tom Mueller you should be thanking. Not the person writing his paycheck. That could be literally anyone.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller
Musk uses his money exclusively to get his name on things to take credit for other people’s work. Tesla, PayPal, Space X, now Twitter / X. All the same. Musk lacks any actual talent or work ethic. He just has money to attach his name to those that do, and money to pay PR teams to make his image appear as someone that has skills to create instead of wealth to take all the credit from those that do.
IF you want to respect someone that has enough wealth to solve almost all of the major problems in the world but uses it instead to purchase a social media platform to shit on others and warp elections, then you go right ahead. But don’t expect anyone else with a sense of reality to agree with you.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol no dude. Musk has been at the beginning and helped create several big name businesses. I read 2 different biographies of musk. And 1 point your making is true, he certainly didn’t do everything by himself. It would be moronic to assume as such. Musk has AT LEAST been smart enough to hire outstanding people to help accomplish to dreams/goals so that his endeavors would succeed.
If you’re unable to see or comprehend that elon musk is by definition, a brilliant person that will probably be the first trillionaire.You’re an idiot, and get out of my face.
I bet it has something to do with this transgender son that you people hate Elon so much.
I’m betting this comment may be removed.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I reject your claim Musk is a genius.
Prove it to me.
You read two of his biographies, so you should know. (Unless those were both fanfiction he paid someone to write about him.)
Musk has indeed been in close proximity to several large companies and their origins.
But genius is not something achievable through osmosis.
What has he, as a person, done with any skill, to suggest he’s a genius? Aside from osmosis.
Let me drop some really basic logical observations your argument will need to overcome to be truthful:
He’s not a productive man:
There is no difference between this behaviour and a jobless NEET or internet troll. They get shit on for this bevavioir due to how unproductive it is.
It’s just as unproductive when Musk does it.
He’s not an accountable father:
This is literally the punchline of a Jeff Foxworthy “You might be a Redneck if…” Joke.
It’s just as unaccountable of Musk to have this many kids with this many people. He would need to spend a lot of time with each to raise them well, and instead he’s playing video games and tweeting almost all day.
Logically, if Musk actually wanted to go to Mars, it would be a 3 step process:
He’s focused on 1, and telling you it’s for the good of Humanity.
But if instead he focused on step 2, he would be fighting climate change right now while developing the tech needed to Terraform Mars, as they are the same tech. That’s what a genius would do.
Instead he’s trying to replace NASA with Space X because money.
He doesn’t use his money to improve society. He just uses it to improve himself while lying to you that it’s for the greater good.
It’s not. And it’s never been.
As evidenced by his Hyper loop being a lie to convince legislators in California to cancel plans for a high speed rail. Something California would now benefit from if not for his interference.
All Musk does with his money is use it to buy PR and good will so he can continue to be someone that uses Twitter and play games all day instead of being a good dad. That’s not genius. That’s greed and stupidity.
He could, even now, solve the world’s problems with his wealth. He literally asked for a plan to solve world hunger, and when presented with one that could have done it for like 8 Billion a year, he refused. Then purchased Twitter for 5 times that amount. Because he wanted to be popular.
Yet solving Wolrd hunger would make him worshipped by the people he fed. More popular than anyone. Families would praise his name. And communities would erect statues for him. This is something he certainly wants, yet his way of achieving that goal is to spend even more than 8 billion on PR to convince you he’s a genius.
That’s not very genius like behavior. It’s still just stupid and greedy.
Imagine, for a moment, you’re a Trillionaire. What would you do with that money? Solve the world’s problems? Help your family? Help your friends? That’s what 90% 9f people say when asked.
And Musk does none of that. Just plays games, shit posts on the internet, and convinces you through biographies and large well paid PR teams that he knows what he’s doing and should be worshipped.
His wealth, unquestionably, would be better used if it was in the hands of thousands instead of his. He wants you to think he deserves it, that he’s a genius. When the most casual look at his approaches to problems immediately reveals he’s not. He just a wad of unspent money that wants to use it to take credit for other people’s work instead of fixing the planet.
Time to prove why you think that makes him a genius.
I’ve worked for him by the way. He’s not a genius. He just has good PR to make you think he is.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol your whole stupid premis was based on me claiming that he is a genius, and I never once called him that once!! ROFL you, like so many, are so triggered by Elon Musk.
I did call him brilliant, and i think that is true. Im not going to go through the details and everything trying to convince you he has accomplished things that others werent able to. I know what it is like to own 1 business, but not multiple on different fields. I cant talk to you idiots as nymore… im done… God bless us.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So you can’t explain or define what genius is, yet judge anyone as an idiot who asks for that context?
Genius and brilliant are synonyms btw. Something pretty obvious.
So unless you want to explain the difference between those two terms, they mean the same thing.
Being pedantic about that doesn’t make you right. It very mush implies the opposite. You just look like someone that ate billionaire PR bait, and forgot what reality tastes like.
You are not saving face by refusing to go into the details, you just look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Something you could easily disprove if you did. Because Geniuses can go into those details. Idiots can only pretend.
So makes sense why you look up to Musk so much. You can only pretend to be smart like him.
Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 1 day ago
Please dive into details. Awareness of, and the will to take them in, are signs of intelligent life.