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Let’s not pretend it was just Reddit. The man literally got a shout-out in Star Trek. He had a lot of people fooled.

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Gee… a capitalist world fawning over capitalists?

Who woulda thunk it?

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Give me a break. There’s a lot of people that people fawn over that turn out to be huge pieces of shit. Just look at Bill Cosby. Not really sure why you’re singling out capitalism.

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Not really sure why you’re singling out capitalism.

And who did Bill Cosby make money for, again? Who protected Bill Cosby and allowed him all that power?

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Yeah, let’s be clear here, in NuTrek. That’s not exactly a mark of quality.

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I don’t think he fooled anyone. The guy was literally helping the environment and advancing the space age. Then he started using drugs and went off the rails. He’s like Kanye. His music was good, the creator just went nuts.

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The guy was literally helping the environment

No he wasn’t. Capitalists don’t cure the disasters they create - they just find different ways of profiting off it.

the creator just went nuts.

No, he didn’t - he just showed his true nature. That is all.

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You see all of the electric cars on the road now? Tesla saw an opportunity to make money, and it paved a path to lower carbon emissions (eventually). Even the blind chicken catches a worm. Capitalism isn’t all bad, it’s the greed it breeds that’s bad. The world isn’t black and white.

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My own personal opinion of him is that he’s a shrewd businessman in a world that prefers businessmen over creators. The second the public eye shifted to him he clearly had some mental episode that has only been heightened by drug use and being egged-on by the alt-right and social commentators like Rogan. Ironically, he’s become a creator, but his content is the actions of a broken billionaire lashing out.

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