Quote from: TDoS on Mar 08, 2025, 09:44 AM

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 08, 2025, 06:02 AMA shithead like Musk who receives government welfare to build his industries and who then faces no competition from competitors is not a genius.  In Musk's situation an idiot could succeed.  And did.

So..do you know how much government welfare Musk received for his creation of the company that was sold to form PayPal and netted him $1.5 BILLION, thereby establishing him as someone deserving of his mail box money no different than you.

Or are you referring to later on...AFTER he obviously put himself in a different class of accomplishment and got noticed?

Maybe any of us, creative enough to make our first BILLION before the age of 32, could have done what he ended up doing, regardless of who helped him at the size and scale he leveraged his capabilities to later?

We all have worked for what we have K-Dog. You, me, Elon. Even RE. All in different ways I imagine, the results being mailbox money or accolades or happiness, hedonism or building a solid family in a world not necessarily making that as easy as it once was.

Life is funny, the way it turns out. So Elon got lucky, is smart, had advantages many of us didn't, and turned it into something other than what we did? Shit, I don't care about how he got his mailbox money any more than how you got yours. Just oozes negative vibes, wasted emotion and energy, hell it's going to be 60F tomorrow and I've got money in the bank and a motorcycle to ride and 2 publications in review and who gives a shit about what others have? I'm living my life, worrying or thinking about others is just...wasted energy. I'm old...I have less energy than I did when I was younger. Less energy to waste over trival shit.

Elon is a egotistical oligarch prick. <yawn> Enough thinking about him....I've got to find my helmet, hopefully you other geezers are having a good weekend doing what interests you and just letting negative energy roll off your backs.

All money is the same to TDOS.  Stolen money, and that earned by the fruits of labor are the same to him.  But if he disagrees, I do not have to hear it for a week.  I have had enough of his insulting shit.  Enjoy your week off TDOS.  I should altogether ban your ass permanently.  You should start your own website.  White racist cracker who worships the divine rite of kings. That would be an appropriate title for you.  You can rant about how privilege is the natural order of the universe, and how you deserve to be one of the privileged few.  One of the bullies.  One of those who think they can tell others what to do just because they can, sans any rational and compassionate considerations other than that which satisfies their ego.  Sans any consideration beyond their personal horizon.

There are about 2000 working hours in a year and in a fifty year working career that works out to 100,000 hours.  At thirty dollars an hour that works out to three million dollars.  The maximum that someone could actually earn by working.  And considering that we can't save everything, having close to that is impossible through honest labor.

Elon has not earned shit, he has created nothing of value.  Teslas are the wrong kind of car, and Mars colonization should not even be on the agenda.  Not in this century, there is too much real work to do.

Musk has shown himself to be a heartless bastard with an emotional I.Q. of zero.  Nothing more than a bull in a china shop money chaser.

* Musk became CEO of the combined company but was pushed out in late 2000 while on vacation. Peter Thiel replaced him.  Musk benefited massively from PayPal's success, but he had little to do with it.  He was just in the right place, took early risks, and held onto his shares despite being ousted from the company. Kicked out of the company he went along for the ride as PayPal' grew, he let other people make him $175 million when it was sold.

In America this is confused with earning the money yourself.  It is a common mental illness.  And from this derangement all money is seen as deserved.