(October 7, 2024 at 11:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 7, 2024 at 11:06 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Elon Musk cares about humanity as a whole. He cares nothing for individuals. Individuals are cogs in the whole and are replaceable. That's how he thinks.
Yeah? Me, from my perspective, he thinks of one individual.
I can guarantee you he doesn't give a shit about me, or you. If he cares about humanity as a whole, why did he threaten Ukraine with cutting off Starlink until the Pentagon told him off? Or perhaps he could sign off on at-cost contracts, if he's so beneficent? Maybe get along with unions in his plants?
I'm not sure where you're getting this philanthropist angle from. Maybe you should get into detail on this. Me, it looks like he doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone but himself.
I have read several books on Musk including the histories of Tesla and SpaceX. All were written by third parties. He got rich off of PayPal and put everything into those two companies - both which he acknowledged had a slim chance of success - and he damn-near bankrupted both companies and himself. He honestly believed he was doing good in creating those companies. The man slept on the factory floors until he succeeded. He honestly believes that establishing a settlement on Mars is the most important thing to humanity. But he doesn't care about who he has to trample over to get there. He couldn't care less about the happiness or welfare of those toiling away in his factories aside from them remaining content enough to stay there. Again, he doesn't care about individuals. He's not a nice guy.
He's a heartless bastard. But if he didn't care about what he was doing, he could just buy an island nation in the Caribbean and spend the rest of his life being served by a staff of ten thousand female Olympic gymnasts.
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