| Outsized success story is high minded gibberish. He’s riding on the coattails of his family’s mining business with a suspect ethical history. I love these “don’t punch down the people who started at the top.” Why do you hate yourself so much you would deflate your own worth by idly idolizing the idea Musk is “with billions.” It’s word of mouth mathematical inference. We’ve been influenced and conditioned to believe their success is real: https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/25/could-consciousness-be... We live in a carefully managed memory that deifies the figurative identity of a minority and aims our agency at protecting it. It isn’t just Twitter; what of real human value has IBM offered to the masses except hype? Oracle? The entire tech industry is an agency capturing religion, spouting the equivalent of catechisms. It’s not lost on me their leaders were raised in a far more religious era. They probably are true believes in the “greater good” gibberish despite being normal humans by all scientific measures. These normal human engineers will freely go work for another “outsized” winner in order to maintain their grift. |
There is no good source for how much money Elon got from his family, but it's fair to assume it was probably 7 digits. Turning a few million dollars into being the most wealthy man on the planet is riding his family's coattails? He founded Zip2 in 1995 with $200k in funding and sold it for $300 million in 1999. Even if he had millions of dollars to start with, he made more for himself than his family ever did by the age of 28.