Feweroptions

joined 1 year ago

Trans rights or else

Imagine your entire worldview being controlled by unelected billionaires influencing your government and media.

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to suggest a correctly define fascism or ban rule

It all reads to me like they couldn't prove he was guilty. So, there's your answer.

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're a fool if you think he's my hero

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Because Musk's rejection of Lidar was foolish

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Okay, and the OP's source for Elon's success coming solely from daddy's money and nothing else is what?

Musk has publicly laid out that anybody can get rich writing software without much startup capital - which not only makes sense but by all accounts seems to be exactly what he did.

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

This is a common misconception. His daddy loaned him a whopping 28 grand. Nothing mind blowing, and certainly not what you'd expect the heir of a freaking emerald mine to get their hands on.

Elon Musk got most of his capital early in his career from the sale of his first company, Zip2, which he co-founded with his brother Kimbal in 1995 using $28,000 borrowed from their father[1][6]. In 1999, Zip2 was sold to Compaq for $307 million, with Musk earning $22 million[1][6]. Musk then invested $10 million of his Zip2 proceeds into founding X.com, one of the first attempts at online banking, which later became PayPal[1]. After PayPal, Musk invested all of his proceeds into his new projects: SpaceX ($100 million), Tesla ($70 million), and SolarCity ($10 million) [1]. By 2008, he was almost penniless and living on $200 thousand monthly loans from his friends after a $20 million divorce[1]. However, his fortunes changed, and by 2017, his net worth had risen to $16 billion[1].

Citations: [1] https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/elon-musks-investments [2] https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-year/ [3] https://money.com/8-innovative-ways-elon-musk-made-money-before-he-was-a-billionaire/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk [5] https://financebuzz.com/jobs-elon-musk-had-before-wealthy [6] https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/origin-stories/elon-musk>

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's a hydrohomies community

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hope you're not suggesting that climate science shouldn't be trusted.

I'm saying that blind faith in any science leaves one vulnerable. It is a bureaucratic labyrinth of conflicting human interests, and far from the pure philosophical ideal of pursuing knowledge and truth.

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is why you don't just "trust the science." Greed, egos, corruption, perverse incentives. There's a lot going on in the background that people are ignorant about.

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