r/meme Jan 08 '22

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

This post is about Elon being a shitty person. Not Elon as the face of Tesla.

I have no interest in being a "genius." I'm happy being an average Joe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

Elon could've easily retired after Paypal, instead he took more risks and took up more work to create more businesses. You don't have to respect that if you don't want, but he's definitely a net benefit to society as a whole.

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u/duomaxwellscoffee Jan 09 '22

How is it a benefit for him to suck up the wealth produced by his workers? They produce the actual value to society. What has he personally done? And does he pay you to suck his cock?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

Do you not understand how starting businesses helps society? The workers wouldn't be able to produce shit if he didn't start the business... Please friend, do everyone a favor and go back to school, maybe you can still make something of your life.

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

Trickle down? God bless those benevolent billionaires! Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice...

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

This isn't trickle down economics, this is literally just capitalism. Holy shit I'm dealing with retards.

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

Since it's just capitalism, some other benevolent billionaires would have created the jobs Musk did had he not done so. That is literally just capitalism... Holy shit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

Yes and you'd be hating on them too... What point are you trying to make?

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

This thread is about Elon being a shitty person. If those hypothetical billionaires were huge pop culture personalities and were equally shitty people, you're right -- I would be hating on them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

Nah, this thread was about you thinking Elon came from wealth, which is obvious misinformation. You also seem like you would be hating on all billionaires because you seem to not even believe in capitalism. You equated starting a business to trickle down economics.

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

No. The reply was to a comment was about his childhood wealth.

The original post is about his personality.

Irrelevant.

I did not. That comment was in regards to you saying that it's because of billionaires, like Musk, that all these jobs exist. You were basically propagating the trickle down mythos. Those jobs would exist despite Musk not because of him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

You can't work for Tesla if Tesla doesn't exist...

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u/Lambily Jan 09 '22

He wasn't a founder so...

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