But Musk wants to be a trailblazer and prove that you can lose at anything.
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solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
None of them are geniuses, it’s just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Look I don’t like Musk either but even starting off wealthy becoming the richest man in the world takes some doing. He was way ahead of the curve on reusable rockets and EVs and succeed there where a bunch of people failed. I think where he fails is when it comes to protecting his image and maintaining relationships. He’s a thin-skinned narcissist who thinks he’s humanity’s savoir and eventually that got to him.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I guess Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were just hapless chaps stumbling around in the dark, until Elon lighted their way with his genius vision of how to build an EV. So much so I had to google their names because even I can’t remember them.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah pretty much haha
Yippster@lemmings.world [bot] 4 weeks ago
That…and buckets of drugs.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I like the way you put it
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its a human blind spot. A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence. In lower socio-economic levels, succeeding involves a lot of intelligence. Its a fucking struggle. Lots of fish trying to eat each other and take what little resources we have. Those values are used to evaluate the people at the top which are swimming in a whole different pond.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
honestly wealth at any level requires luck… intelligence barely factors into it
Glide@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism “works.” It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.
You’re right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They’re making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they’re confidently acting exactly as they’ve been taught from birth?