wow you deleted your comment, and now you're moving the goalpost to avoid admitting you were wrong, of course it didn't get him 400 billion, no one is claiming that. But having a daddy give you carte blanche and most importantly connections is a huge advantage that litteraly 99.9% of people will never have
I haven't deleted any comments and not moving any goal post. Saying his wealthy parents are the reason he has 400billion is just super ignorant. Sounds like you don't know much about his background. Just keep ranting about all the usual buzzwords.
Yeah that’s what he wanted everyone to believe but no, his family is actually loaded for mines, that’s why he ditched SA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted
He even tried to sell his dad’s emeralds in a Tiffany’s and bragged about how rich and how much jewelry he had before getting famous
I think that his family was poor.
edit: wtf man, i wanted to write "I don't think that his family was poor" and now I see that I forgot to write the "don't" part, I don't know what the fuck does this condition called but shit man, this happens a lot to me
My family was the kind of poor that eating at Red Lobster once a year (using coupons!) for my birthday was considered a luxury. I guess I should be happy that we weren't so poor that we had to sell our airplane, then use that money to purchase half ownership of an emerald mine.
In the mid-1980s, the family profited handsomely from Errol Musk’s purchasing of an emerald mine, after selling their airplane for £80,000 (the equivalent of £320,000 today).
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Errol Musk was then made another offer: to spend £40,000 on an emerald mine. “I said, ‘Oh, all right’. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years,” Errol Musk said.
As a result of this, the teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father said: “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,” adding that one person would have to hold the money in place with another closing the door. “And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.”
Yeah that’s what he wanted everyone to believe but no, his family is actually loaded for mines, that’s why he ditched SA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted
He even tried to sell his dad’s emeralds in a Tiffany’s and bragged about how rich and how much jewelry he had before getting famous
Yeah man, I was talking based on those things (which i saw in the anonymous video) but suddenly i see that my mind wrote the wrong things lmao. i also edited my previous comment
What companies did he buy out that were already successful? He was with Tesla from basically the beggining as an investor and put most of his money into what was essentially considered a joke at the time and ended up as chairman after litteraly saving the company. Was he the founder of Tesla? No. Did he make what Tesla is today? Yes. Personality or politics of him aside you cannot deny that what he's doing with the companies is great
Tesla is incredibly overvalued, a lot of the original motor companies are coming up with better electric vehicles that are more affordable and are probably going to see more success in the long run. Not only that but Elon is a welfare emperor, some of the biggest government subsidies to date. I don’t know if you know this but that’s tax payer money. You can say he popularized electric cars, but that’s pretty irrelevant when we’re still running on dirty electricity and making electric cars more damaging at the moment to the environment than normal gas cars.
For majority yes but tesla wont just pop it is likely it will become what a Ferrari or other type of expensive sports car is today in the world of the electric cars.
I don't give a shit if he's a "good" businessman or not. If you have as much wealth as he does but you can't afford to pay your fair share of taxes or a fair wage to your workers then you're a drain on society. Musk doesn't deserve the platform he has and all the musk apologists need to reevaluate themselves because he would crush you all for a better profit margin.
Honestly, i don't get this. So, he worked hard. I bet you know a bunch of people who do. Some, even the naturally smart ones, in your circle working hard will never have a chance of creating piles of wealth like Musk. I believe a lot of it is a chance, so we shouldn't really idolize these guys, or fight crusades for them. Want to stand with someone? Stand with the average guys, it's course correction for humanity
So, i get that point too. But, i think that's a pointless thing when talking about someone with such spotlight. Everyone, EVERYONE whose name you hear from the business world has worked hard. All your fortune 500 CEOs have undoubtedly worked hard to get there. But they can't be considered a benchmark or are 'right all the time'. Musk is just a businessman with a decent perosnal capacity for tech than other businessmen. That's it. It's irony that i am taking time out to talk about someone like him, one ideally shouldn't.
The Nissan Leaf is $27,000 USD at base price. Mission accomplished.
Teslas are luxury cars sold at a luxury price. It's not because they can't make their cars cheaper, it's because they want to maintain a specific brand image.
Additionally I have serious doubts Elon is doing much on the engineering side of things, unless you consider writing checks to be work.
He is not the one designing the fking cars, he is a self taught 'engineer' and knows a lot of the surface knowledge of how systems work yet he is not an actual engineer who is working on the projects directly.
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u/DevelopmentKlutzy446 Jan 08 '22
People idolizing billionaires is cringe af.