Posted by evo_9 16 hours ago
Every child starts out thinking, "if I was in charge, I could fix this. It's so simple!"
Then you actually see that when you make bad choices, you or others get hurt, and you realize that you don't always know what's best.
But these guys never get hurt, because they have the money to be shielded from it, so they end up being these delusional wrecking ball assholes, who think they know better than everyone else and don't need anyone else's consent (I.e. votes) to make whatever overly simplistic or authoritarian changes their underdeveloped brains concoct.
Every worse, they -- like pretty much all of us -- tend to think that most people are just like them, so they think not only that they understand normal people, but that they are normal people. And the ones that don't either tend to think that their will should be imposed on the rest of us because we're too stupid to understand what's good for us and/or just view us as resources to be mined.
If you haven't paid your own bills with money you earned (no jobs from family) for the last 10 years, you can't run for office. Literally the mayor of Seattle has never paid her own bills and her husband has never worked either. There is no universe where someone with that life experience makes a good leader.
Where is your evidence for this? It's a pretty strong claim.
You may want to get your info from more places than Fox News.
If it's true she has never paid her own bills and her husband has never had a job, then I'd like that sort of regular life.
If she has been paying her own bills or her husband has had a job in his life, then say so.
other than musk, were the tech bros rich? most seem to have grown up middle class.
that said, the fact they are still rich suggests that they do know how to analyze risk. You don't keep your money if you dont have any concept of risk.
https://thetechleaders.com/was-elon-musk-born-rich-exploring...
No, that isn't what made him rich now, holding onto paypal shares did, but part of the reason he could hold onto those shares is because he had a wealthy family supporting him so he could just sit on them.
If you don't think Musk grew up wealthy after listening to what he says about his childhood, I could only assume you also grew up in an extremely privileged environment and just don't realize how far above the median your life was.
Do you have a credible source for this? At best I'm seeing EDS conspiracy nuts (and Erol, though he seems to be all over the place).
> No, that isn't what made him rich now, holding onto paypal shares did
I think there's a little more to it than that.
> Part of the reason he could hold onto those shares is because he had a wealthy family supporting him so he could just sit on them.
He didn't hold on to them long, at most a year or so after he left (the sale to eBay was 2002).
And why would his family be supporting him when he was already a millionaire and had paid off his 100K+ student loans?
Again, do you have any credible sources for any of this?
that is an entirely separate question from if he grew up wealthy.
to be fair, i dont actually know how wealthy he grew up, i was relying on the general internet view that he did, but i haven't actually looked into it, so maybe that is wrong.
Elon also has legitimate concerns for his safety.
> Elon also has legitimate concerns for his safety.
Musk constantly posts racist and violent provocations. Free speech for him, brutal censorship for everyone he disagrees with.
FTFY.
Just what is he censoring? I've seen plenty of far-out posts from both the left and right on X.
But X banned accounts for non-spam content violations at a much higher rate than Twitter and approved content censorship requests from authoritarian states at a higher rate
In any case, what social media platform do you assert censors less?
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-mu...
BTW, if I owned X, I would also not allow pictures of mutilated people or sexual content. The previous incarnation of Twitter did not allow that either, but did censor right wing content and anything that disagreed with Fauci covid policy.
Here's an example of recent censorship: https://x.com/PushDemsLeft/status/2085803160342241367
In the early days of Silicon Valley, tech companies were disrupted. But we shouldn't forget that the true origins of Silicon Valley were in defense contracting. Modern tech companeis have become so large that they have become almost indistinguishable from the state (ironically, in a way that people accuse Chinese companies of doing). Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon are now in the same category as Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman and Boeing.
Put another way, tech companies haven't sought a utopia, they've simply amplified the current system, which is one of increasing inequality.