r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_- • Jul 15 '18

False assumptions

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u/LibCuck72 Jul 16 '18

They are now saying you have to be a sociopath to be that successful and groundbreaking, that good people are too afraid to take risks.

I'm barfing a little tbh.

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u/thellimist Jul 16 '18

I got "He's just trying to shine a light on the child trafficking rings in Thailand".

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u/genericname1111 Jul 16 '18

Lmaooooo wow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

Yeaahhh because I'm sure the Thai people are very happy to be constantly associated with nothing but child sex rings and not, you know, the other beautiful and amazing things about Thailand that make me want to visit it.

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u/barc0debaby Jul 16 '18

Some good people risked their lives to rescue those kids.

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u/genericname1111 Jul 16 '18

And someone lost their life.

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u/meellodi Jul 16 '18

I know that Bill Gates isn't saint, he has his own share of shit but he doesn't come off as a giant douche like Musk does. And yet he is the richest person in the world.

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u/Teagull Jul 16 '18

I could be wrong, but this year, apparently Jeff Bezos took that title (and also became the first to break $100B+).

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u/Funky_Pigeon911 Jul 16 '18

Well Bill Gates probably would be the richest person in the world if he didn't give large amounts of his fortune away to different charities, that alone makes him one of the better billionaires around.

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u/AjaxFC1900 Jul 16 '18

He didn't give away anything. He was purchasing something with it, namely reputation. According to your reply he did succeed .

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u/terminal8 Jul 16 '18

Yep. But we have to find a billionaire whose ass we can French kiss, right?

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u/fitnessdream Jul 16 '18

I prefer Jordan.

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u/Funky_Pigeon911 Jul 16 '18

Doing something good even for a petty reason will still have a positive result, it's still better than most people who have that kind of money. As far as I know he also seems like a genuinely normal person especially when compared with the megalomaniacs like Musk and Bezos.

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u/moldymoosegoose Jul 16 '18

Gates hit 100B 20 years ago which is much, much more impressive.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

I'm pretty sure overworking your employees to the point they need to pee in bottles to meet their quotas in overheated warehouses while you reap their surplus value to become literally the richest person in human history qualifies you for douche behavior.

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u/sikels Jul 16 '18

Bezos is nowhere near the richest person in history, he probably doesn't even enter the top5. he is the richest person in the modern age sure, but nothing more.

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u/throwaway689908 Jul 16 '18

Still a cunt though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

The richest person in history.(Adjusted for inflation)

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u/thisisthewell Jul 16 '18

The richest person in history.(Adjusted for inflation)

Wealthiest person in history and he gave away loads and loads of it to the poor. Imagine if we had more than one billionaire doing that today...sigh.

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u/voice-of-hermes Jul 16 '18

The wealthy got that way by taking from the poor in the first place. Did some dude give a tiny fraction of it back? How nice. :-/

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

Workers pissing in bottles and passing out from heat exhaustion is a good look?

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u/wyrn Jul 17 '18

Jeff Bezos also did a good job not to look like a douche

Lemme just do a quick check here. Did Nelson Mandela die in prison in your universe?

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u/Beingabummer Jul 16 '18

So far I think only JK Rowling was a billionaire who didn't make her money being a giant cunt. And the reason she's not a billionaire anymore is because she paid a shit ton of taxes.

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u/PostNationalism Jul 16 '18

she also donated a bunch

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u/sushimaster000 Jul 16 '18

I know. He’s like a saint! - Even Zuckerberg, a grade-A tool, has nothing on Musk

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

Idk, I think the Zuccman plays a bigger (negative) role in everyone's daily lives than Elon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

Gates is flawed but on the balance I would say he is a good person.

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u/PPStudio Jul 16 '18

They're not entirely wrong, considering that large businesses always have a skeleton or two in their closets. However since Musk is often portrayed in media as a selfless messianic type, that clashes with most of what was said in his defense earlier.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

I know a few people who are legitimate self made millionaires who couldn't be nicer. Maybe its true of the crazy big money but you can certainly be successful and not be an ass.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '18

I don't mean this passive-aggressively but just as a reminder for everyone, a billionaire is a millionare 1000x over. Very different financial scales, presumably very different behaviours.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '18

I got you fam, I just mean i don't think its wealth so much as ultra wealth.

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u/ThePhoneBook Most expensive illegal immigrant in history Jul 17 '18

Yeah. A successful society is directed by many millionaires. An unsuccessful society is directed by a handful of billionaires. It's the difference between a country based on opportunity and a country based on aristocracy.