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Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

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  • People forget Musk isn’t actually technically smart, he’s just good at buying into and investing in already good ideas using money he got by playing the capital machine (and his parents south africa money).
    He didn’t found PayPal; he merged another company with them and capitalized on their already good idea.
    He didn’t found Tesla, he invested in them and then drove the original founders out.
    He did admittedly create SpaceX, but only by bringing on good engineers from the start after failing to buy ICBM’s from Russia. Yes, he tried that… spaceX has been successful only because he gave them the runway to let engineers work right.

    The cult of personality is insane, he’s just another average investor bro who got lucky in the crazy growth of the 90’s/00s.












  • Modern “libertarianism” has been fully corrupted by both corporations (to mean “liberty from any and all government regulations”) and by the racist shithole fascists (to mean “my liberty to commit hate crimes and no liberty for everyone else”). It sucks because I mostly agree with the tagline, but people like Friedman are far too altruistic about how well corporations (and other individuals) can operate without some level of government oversight to keep them actually accountable to the individuals that libertarianism is supposed to uphold.