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0 pointspanick21_3y ago0 comments

I saw a recent Twitter take that was like:

"Who payed for those computers in the 90s that Musk had access to?"

Its like yeah ok, he wasn't found in a dumbster during a civil war. Is that the level now, where nobody can get any credit because they were not born into abject poverty?

That just basically means that 99% of people who achieve anything don't deserve credit for anything.

Its basically materialist logic taken to an absurd degree.

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simondotau3y ago

Or those takes where it’s argued that because his companies have many hundreds of employees, it’s literally impossible for Elon to have contributed anything of value whatsoever.

Or even more hilariously, that Elon is some kind of marketing genius. Seriously, the guy is the opposite of a smooth communicator, and leans heavily into his autistic sense of humour. Yet apparently the only reason anyone ever bought a Tesla is because they were suckered in by a slick sales pitch.

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simondotau3y ago

Or those takes where it’s argued that because his companies have many hundreds of employees, it’s literally impossible for Elon to have contributed anything of value whatsoever.

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