Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I would call 2020 close enough to today to call it the modern era. So he IS being judged for who he's recently shown himself to be

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Of course there are things he should be criticised for. You bring up one example here.

An example with a body count exceeding that of almost all other people on earth. That's worthy if far more than just "criticism".

If he had been poor and responsible for the same number of avoidable deaths, he would be rightly considered one of history's greatest monsters.

What I am saying is, that you should not judge him on what he did four decades ago, but how he is acting today.

And today he's acting like a goddamn monster who values property and profits over thousands if not millions of human lives. That's what I'm judging him for today.

[hitmyspot@aussie.zone]

Didn’t he short Tesla?

[ansiz@lemmy.world]

Americans equal money with power, the more power you have, the more value, etc. That is basically it.

[ansiz@lemmy.world]

The insane shit is probably Musk's obsession with trying to impress gamers with his (pretend) gaming skills. Having characters in Diablo 4 or PoE2 being clearly played by other people, while acting like this is his work alone.

[matti@sopuli.xyz]

To be fair there are plenty of ruthless greedy people with zero morals out there but Musk is far more successful than any of them so something has to differentiate him. He might not be intelligent enough to recognise what a crigerworthy loser he is but let's not pretend he isn't smart.

[kameecoding@lemmy.world]

not by accident, but certainly by luck, and then you can argue whether someone makes their own luck or not, musk hit the jackpot of being at the right moment at the right time and having the right skillset.

There are plenty of alternate universes out there where he became a nobody after paypal.

[sinningstromgald@lemmy.world]

Dont mistake his philanthropy for some form of altruism. He setup the Gates Foundation for tax avoidance pure and simple. The fact he tries to do good with it is a side affect.

https://youtu.be/69AtkAHkKEc?si=tvZGQXK_S5i0wF3J

[goodthanks@lemmy.world]

Mate, he is on a very self destructive spiral doing those nazi salutes at the inauguration. That's not a smart move. He's let his fantasies get the better of him. If he was really smart he would shut the fuck up about politics. He has everything, And consequently he values nothing.

[d00ery@lemmy.world]

If he's so desperate to impress about something as inconsequential as gaming, what kind of lies is he saying about everything else ...

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

Smart can mean many things. My dentist is smart, but he is not well rounded. Most people aren't well rounded smart.

Musk is a good investor, and expert con artist. He is smart in those ways.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

Like if anyone ever screamed "overcompensating for a small dick"...

Like we probably don't have the scientific equipment to actually locate Musk's cock if it's size is relative to how much he's overcompensating.

[rekorse@sh.itjust.works]

He's about as smart as trump is a successful businessman.

[rekorse@sh.itjust.works]

Quite a lot of americans equate money with success and ability. Elon musk must be the smartest guy because dumb people dont make money like that.

I think its reverse engineering though, americans see his worth, and work backwards claiming all his choices are genius and well thought out.

[biofaust@lemmy.world]

He is probably just envious he didn't get to do it himself. Or that it doesn't fit his made-up persona.

[rekorse@sh.itjust.works]

Its not just power, its ego and success. If McDonalds started paying 30$ an hour it would suddenly be a job that signaled success, despite nothing changing about the job duties.

Thats what's happening here, elon is rich so he must be smart, and now people are jealous and emulate him. The OP is right though, money or not he's an idiot.

[spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Did he do that for D4? I thought I heard he could actually play that, but he just absolutely n00bed up the PoE2 play.

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

It's absolutely reverse engineering. People want to believe that the world is a meritocracy, and that means believing that those who have succeeded at meritful.

People avoid internalizing that the world is a kleptocracy, because that would mean having to confront that if they want to get ahead, they'll have to actively amd knowingly fuck other people over, and most of us are not psychopaths

[__nobodynowhere@lemm.ee]

Mr Gates actually has some power to do something

But he won't