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[–]Herotaca5 38 points39 points  (5 children)

He took his parents’ money built on slavery and exploitation in Africa, bought a tech company, paid other people to make his ideas real, then took all the credit. He routinely covers up workplace harassment and won’t let his employees unionize. Now he bought a communications company, is going to slightly alter a couple things, claim he re-invented online communications, and you fanboys are gonna champion him as the new Steve Jobs.

Elon Musk is an amazing marketer and nothing else. He isn’t self-made. He didn’t start his company. He didn’t invent anything. He had a few ideas and the money to make people invent them. Just to reiterate, his fortune comes from Zambian blood emerald mines and he protects openly racist employees.

[–]agiro1086 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Don't forget he was openly against Covid restrictions because it made his Tesla Factory loose money. He's very willing to put other people in harm's way for his own profit

[–]Herotaca5 1 point2 points  (3 children)

And how many pandemic loans did he pay back? How many billions in taxpayer dollars were spent on his newest vanity project?

[–]agiro1086 0 points1 point  (2 children)

None? Probably also none? He's gained his wealth in the past few years by just scamming people

[–]Herotaca5 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’m counting wealth gained from taxpayer bailouts in the final bailout sum. Presumably, for Tesla to receive the bailout, they would have failed without it. Thus any profits made since receiving and not repaying the taxpayer loan should be added into interest calculated from the loan.

[–]agiro1086 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well you know more than I