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240 points

Says the heir to an emerald mine that has never encountered a single ounce of hardship during his entire waste of time on this planet. He’s never even built anything, the fucker just buys his way in and takes credit for others’ ideas.

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48 points

I think he did contribute code to PayPal in the early years but I also remember reading they had to rip it all out it was so bad.

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100 points

I met Elon in ~1999 when they were pitching us integrating their payment system into our software which was run by a number of the largest firms in the world. Have you ever met a group where one of them is clearly a moron but it is also the best at selling? That’s Elon. We passed because our company was run by nerds without an ounce of corporate in it, but I can easily see how Elon would “wow” an executive dipshit that doesn’t know shit about the product. Elon is a salesman for the tech enthusiasts, not the tech professionals. He sells what they call dreams and we call vaporware.

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He’s another steve jobs…dude was an idiot for tech, but a salesman that could sell bananas to monkeys.

This is why elon is dangerous, he’s not dumb, and knows how to sell shit to the masses.

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18 points

I’ve suspected such for a long time. Many years ago I used to watch his streamed press conferences. Back when hardly anybody gave a shit about him. He appeared to be the one who does no work at all but hogs the stage during presentations pretending as if he’s the big technical brains of the group. I had a feeling something was off.

I remember on a particular stream during QA time, one of the nerds was able to speak and basically said what Elon was talking about was completely wrong. But in a diplomatic way. That was probably a pivotal moment when I started to figure he’s full of shit. Like when you see it then you can’t unsee it anymore moments.

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76 points

Which, btw, he’s an idiot for not just staying quiet and letting people praise him. Imagine for a moment he took the ridiculous wealth he has and kept quietly pointing it at things that help everyone. He would have been beloved and had more influence than he does now. All of it probably costing him less. Alongside many other reasons, this fucking dumb as shit shift he made makes me want to crush him and Trump even more.

Cause like wtf, Musk? You had a clear and easy path to all the power and prestige and recognition you could have ever wanted by helping the world. Instead, you turned into an asshole.

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24 points

Once you become addicted to praise, it’s hard to live without it.

Look at all the third rate actors and musicians who act like God’s gift…

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I think what you mean is attention. He would still have had praise, and less verbal mockery, had he kept up the other route. Instead we got a third rate villain who would be easily demasked without Fred and Velma.

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10 points

He faces hardship every day knowing there’re people on the internet making fun of him and he’s powerless to do anything about it.

It’s part of why he bought Twitter.

Now if only he could get some sensible help and a benign hobby.

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