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Imagine your entire worldview being controlled by unelected billionaires influencing your government and media.
Imagine your entire worldview being controlled by unelected billionaires influencing your government and media.
I’d like to suggest a correctly define fascism or ban rule
You’re a fool if you think he’s my hero
Okay, and the OP’s source for Elon’s success coming solely from daddy’s money and nothing else is what?
Musk has publicly laid out that anybody can get rich writing software without much startup capital - which not only makes sense but by all accounts seems to be exactly what he did.
This is a common misconception. His daddy loaned him a whopping 28 grand. Nothing mind blowing, and certainly not what you’d expect the heir of a freaking emerald mine to get their hands on.
Elon Musk got most of his capital early in his career from the sale of his first company, Zip2, which he co-founded with his brother Kimbal in 1995 using $28,000 borrowed from their father[1][6]. In 1999, Zip2 was sold to Compaq for $307 million, with Musk earning $22 million[1][6]. Musk then invested $10 million of his Zip2 proceeds into founding X.com, one of the first attempts at online banking, which later became PayPal[1]. After PayPal, Musk invested all of his proceeds into his new projects: SpaceX ($100 million), Tesla ($70 million), and SolarCity ($10 million) [1]. By 2008, he was almost penniless and living on $200 thousand monthly loans from his friends after a $20 million divorce[1]. However, his fortunes changed, and by 2017, his net worth had risen to $16 billion[1].
Citations: [1] https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/elon-musks-investments [2] https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-year/ [3] https://money.com/8-innovative-ways-elon-musk-made-money-before-he-was-a-billionaire/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk [5] https://financebuzz.com/jobs-elon-musk-had-before-wealthy [6] https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/origin-stories/elon-musk>
I wonder if there’s a hydrohomies community
I hope you’re not suggesting that climate science shouldn’t be trusted.
I’m saying that blind faith in any science leaves one vulnerable. It is a bureaucratic labyrinth of conflicting human interests, and far from the pure philosophical ideal of pursuing knowledge and truth.
This is why you don’t just “trust the science.” Greed, egos, corruption, perverse incentives. There’s a lot going on in the background that people are ignorant about.
This is cool
I have a vague recollection of a Canadian politician getting cornered with a great question on covid response overreach on a video call, and after everyone watching, including a live audience, heard everything crystal clear, they were like “sorry, we seem to be having technical issues, couldn’t hear the question, looks like you’re breaking up!” And then they hung up LOL.
Nothing to see here, folks, go back to your business!
The Ground app
I virtually never want food or water. My body screams “eat now or you’re going into a coma, idiot!”
I think this is a great opportunity to see if anybody has a spine anymore. If the French won’t have a proper revolution, we’re fucked.
Late at night, she’s driving down… that stretch of the road. Suddenly, her engine begins to sputter…
The only answer is to send ourselves back to the stone age and seize the means of re production!
They’re the same picture
Likewise for cringe so look in the mirror
It’s a thin J, okay kid? Git gud, get on my level.
Trans rights or else