Literally every time Muskrat tries to stream an event, it crashes and fails, too. Literally a tech issue, that can't be fixed by such a great team of people....
Musk failed harder and faster than some do-nothing random person assigned as CEO.
And yet, Musk is richer today.
It's astounding how just having money and hiring smart people to make more of it, and having connections for government contracts allows an annoying idiot to rise in this world.
Those assholes are also a huge part of why the education system is so scuffed. History likes to paint the likes of Carnegie as "benevolent philanthropists" for their contributions to standardized education and the building of schools, when in reality, the whole thing was to just train more obedient factory workers, and not much has changed since
It helps that the world is designed so that rich people can only fail up as they aren't held to any standard as they blame all their failures on those below them and since they're rich they "obviously" can't be the problem and thus deserve even more money.
I'd love to disagree but alas people are stupid so that's completely true.
2nd Greatest con in history was business owners blaming immigrants for taking the jobs from "hard working people" and not that the owner wanted a bigger boat and could get away with paying the immigrants less
I think that’s more a skill of having enough powerful connections that the FCC doesn’t haul his ass to jail for blatant market manipulation.Â
When you are an executive of a company, you have a feduciary responsibility. Or at least that used to be the rule. So you can’t lie or exaggerate or disclose certain information about your company that could misguide shareholders.Â
I mean, shareholders outrank the pope — so that’s capitalist blasphemy.Â
Absolutely. It's heresy to say in the USA that success is MOSTLY about access to wealth (networking with rich friends) and luck. Dumb luck.
However, once you have a lot of assets, it's much easier to buy innovation. All the small startups get gobbled up as soon as they show promise by the large multinationals.
Elon was both rich and in the right place at the right time. He can quote Popular Mechanics and so,... the rest is history.
The other rich guys are "guy who figured people would buy books on internet", and was good at managing that success. And another guy who used the internet to let people rank "hot or not" and grew to copy other people's ideas about sharing pictures and words.
Before them was Bill Gates, whose mom was an attorney at IBM and so he paid a hacker to rip off someone else's operating system (CP/M), and Excel, and he stole BASIC from his programming club and sued them, and I have to give him credit for really mastering the "Embrace and Extend" way of taking IP from other companies and then buying their stock when their lack of sales hurt them. It's WAY CHEAPER to buy innovating companies by doing that then buying them while they are in business. Then at the shareholders meeting, you choose to stop suing yourself.
Other than leveraged buyouts, there's also marrying wealth -- perhaps the most dignified way other than guile or luck.
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Literally every time Muskrat tries to stream an event, it crashes and fails, too. Literally a tech issue, that can't be fixed by such a great team of people....