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0 pointsBubble_Pop_224y ago0 comments

> With Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller I don’t think so. With Gates I am not sure

All 3 of them took wealth away from paper-millionaire shareholders of competing companies (eg. Netscape) and delivered superior quality of life to the consumer. Nobody sheds a tear for the paper-millionaires, rightfully so. It's only their greed which didn't make them cashout before Standard Oil/Microsoft eventually outcompeted them delivering a better product to the consumer.

Same with Facebook v. Myspace and Google v. Yahoo. Nobody sheds a tear for the shareholders of Myspace and Yahoo. Rightfully so.

Musk is robbing taxpayers in the form of subsidies and tax credits for luxury vehicles which all end up parked in front of Bel Air mansions and 5th Avenue shops.

On top of that he already said that he'll never do philantropy

0 pointsBubble_Pop_224y ago0 comments

> With Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller I don’t think so. With Gates I am not sure

Same with Facebook v. Myspace and Google v. Yahoo. Nobody sheds a tear for the shareholders of Myspace and Yahoo. Rightfully so.

Musk is robbing taxpayers in the form of subsidies and tax credits for luxury vehicles which all end up parked in front of Bel Air mansions and 5th Avenue shops.

On top of that he already said that he'll never do philantropy

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lapcat4y ago· 1 in thread

> All 3 of them took wealth away from paper-millionaire shareholders of competing companies (eg. Netscape) and delivered superior quality of life to the consumer. Nobody sheds a tear for the paper-millionaires, rightfully so.

Well actually... Microsoft was almost broken up by the government for what it did to Netscape, until there was a change of US Presidential administration, after which Microsoft was given a wrist slap, and then 9/11 immediately hit, which made the issue disappear from public consciousness.

I'm not exaggerating here: the Department of Justice announced it was no longer seeking to break up Microsoft in September 2001. See this article from the WSJ literally the day before 9/11: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000076767888491506

Bubble_Pop_22OP4y ago

> Microsoft was almost broken up by the government for what it did to Netscape

It should have been given the medal of freedom instead...those crackpots at netscape wanted to charge people money for the browser.

Only former netscape shareholders could possibly defend Netscape.

Microsoft I will always defend, the decision by Gates and Ballmer to allow piracy enabled me and my family to always have the latest version of Windows/Word/Encarta/IE even though we were poor.

spaetzleesser4y ago

“All 3 of them took wealth away from paper-millionaire shareholders of competing companies (eg. Netscape) and delivered superior quality of life to the consumer”

Especially Carnegie made life miserable for tens of thousands of his workers. No amount of charity can make up for the amount of suffering he caused.

greedo4y ago

The Federal EV tax credit for Tesla was completely phased out in 2020.

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