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[–] nodiratime 7 points 6 hours ago (12 children)

Well, his AI is the only I he has...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (11 children)

I know you’re joking, but it’s really dangerous to assume your enemy is an idiot. He isn’t stupid, he’s evil. If he were stupid he would not be the richest man in the world clawing still more gold into his hoard.

[–] Furbag 17 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

If he were stupid he would not be the richest man in the world

No, stop.

You are conflating wealth with intelligence.

Do you know how easy it is to have money multiply itself in high enough quantities? It's hard to overstate just how difficult it would be to have the wealth of Elon Musk and somehow not make money. You would have to make several multi-million dollar bad investments per day for decades, and even then, you're still not likely to run out of cash any time soon. If Elon Musk did absolutely nothing for the rest of his life (and god, we could only hope) the interest and dividends his wealth passively generates for him would be enough for all of his children and grandchildren to live lavishly luxurious lives.

Elon is not a genius. He's actually a complete fucking moron who got very, very lucky and has excellent timing. If it were not for the success of PayPal in the early dotcom days, we would never have heard from this guy again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Also has been bailed out by Peter theil more than once. Theil is on the other hand extremely deft and cunning and straight up evil.

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