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princessk1293 t1_j33nngb wrote

Thank you. This matches my research on it a while back. I hate that people act like hardship is always something a person brings upon themselves. We all know so many people who work their butts off and have little to nothing to show for it and people who just coats by and good things just fall in their lap. Life is NOT fair. We tell our kids to not expect life to be fair, but we teach them that it really is and if something isn’t going the way you want it to, it must be your fault.

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Jimithyashford OP t1_j33oaoy wrote

Meritocracy is somewhat a myth. Not totally a myth, being better and smarter than your peers can get you ahead, but only to a certain degree.

We all know extremely hard working disciplined people who slaved their lives away in poverty.

Also thanks to Elon, the idea of the uber rich being better and smarter and deserving of their wealth has been completely rebuked, since we all now know that Elon is a fucking idiot who’s genius was in making a handful of great investments in other people’s good ideas.

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nofretting t1_j33vxgn wrote

>Elon is a fucking idiot

I don't know anything about electric cars or rockets, so I took for granted that he knew more than me about them.

But I do know something about software, and seeing what he's doing to Twitter makes me want to stay away from his cars and rockets... or anything he's involved in.

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Jimithyashford OP t1_j34dbbu wrote

Turns out that inheriting a mountain of apartheid blood money allows you to hire and invest in very smart people, you don’t actually have to be all that smart or insightful yourself.

I don’t want to say Elon musk never did anything right, he did recognize what a great investment PayPal would be, and he recognized what a great investment tesla would be, so he’s not void of any insight, but being an OK investor, who started off already rich to begin with, is the extent of his personal merit.

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