Crack house. Definitely a crack house.
Who?
The seed money he got from his father for his first business - split between him and his brother Kimbal, whom his father liked much better than him - was $28,000. After Elon and Kimbal had already raised some funds from other investors, too. Everyone seems to think Musk was born in a vast emerald-encrusted mansion. His family were by no means poor but he’s not “old money.”
Hate Elon Musk for real reasons, not made up ones.
Prove it
This article on the company describes his funding sources, with citations for each claim.
Can you prove the contrary, that he was “born into wealth?”
I don’t feel the need to prove musk was born into wealth. Just look up his family and his education. The advantages of being able to take risk with other people’s money is insurmountable. Of the millions in America only fractions get access to the education musk had, connections he made, and contacts he most likely inherented. $28,000 doesn’t sound like much compared to the billions he now hoards but that is a pipe dream for most Americans and the ability to bet that on a business without fear of losing it all is the definition of privilege. Say Zip2 failed, do you honestly think he would never recover and go on to make another bet elsewhere? That’s privilage.
Prove it
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I don’t feel the need to prove musk was born into wealth.
I hardly need to point out the double standard here.
Just read your own Wikipedia article bruh
The references there talk about them having tens of thousands of dollars to spend on things. That matches with what I linked above.
I agree that people tend to overstate his income due to misunderstanding his relationship with his father. And the story about him keeping emeralds in his pockets is murky at best.
But his wealth compared to the average income of any black person in South Africa in 1971, still makes him vastly better off than any ‘colored’ child born in the same country, making him institutionally old money by grace of being born white.
Certainly he was above average. But that’s not “born into wealth.” $28,000 is the price of a modest new car. There are huge numbers of people who are able to get seed money like that from friends and relatives to start a business, but clearly Elon did something more than those people to grow that to the $400 billion his current net wealth stands at.
The problem is that Musk has become such an intensely politically and culturally polarizing figure that saying even the remotely “positive” thing about him - such as “he’s actually a pretty good self-made businessman” - gets interpreted as “boy howdy do I ever love Trump and misogyny!”
When 90% of your countrymen are born into a world where they cannot legally hold the same jobs as you. You are born into extreme privilege.
After reading the book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer I came away with the feeling he really wasn’t a pretty good self-made businessman.
Elon Musk started his companies in America.
If you want to judge Americans by global standards, then basically every single one of them is “born into wealth” because most of the people in the world live below the American poverty line.
After reading the book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer I came away with the feeling he really wasn’t a pretty good self-made businessman.
Going from a $30,000 seed investment to $400 billion dollars would tend to suggest otherwise.
Call him a terrible person, sure. You can’t buy a good personality. But as a businessman the numbers seem pretty clear.
In his mom’s basement, in cum-stained sweatpants, sitting hunched over in front of a cheap oversized monitor hooked up to an underpowered desktop PC with lots of LED, trolling on /b/ and /pol/ and jerking off to pokeporn.
So, no difference then?
As a matter of fact, yes.
I didn’t make all that up on the spot. I already had the visual image in mind because that really is how I visualize him.
And I didn’t even try to do it. When he first bought Twitter and started trolling professionally, I just found myself visualizing him doing it, and before I knew it, I had this crystal clear image of him sitting in front of a desktop PC on a rickety particle board desk in a dank basement room with white paint over concrete and green shag carpeting, lit only by the glow from a cheap monitor, wearing gross stained sweats and a hoodie, hunched over a grimey keyboard and occasionally giggling to himself.
I keep trying to visualize the more likely reality for a billionaire of some sort of extremely custom multi-monitor setup in the center of a purpose-built room, but it just won’t stick.
That’s some vivid and disturbing imagery! :-)
Of a vividly disturbing person.
“Mooom, get me my CHEESY POOFS!”
“Moooom! Bathroom! BATHROOM!”
web dev, still unsure of the difference between var and let
A failing con artist.
Drug Overdose
What level of wealth was he born into?
Immense.
(I think they are asking about what level of wealth he’d be born into in your imaginary scenario – I wrote my post assuming ‘my own’, which is to say ‘comfortably middle-class parents in a rapidly crumbling economy, guaranteed to die poorer than his folks’)
You’re right sorry.
He was born in South Africa, so he would be there still.
If only, sigh.
He’s practically got ‘clueless middle-manager’ stamped on his forehead. He has he confidence to fake it through an interview and the animal cunning to blame others for his mistakes.
I wouldn’t hire him.
One of those restaurateur dolts who think they are god’s gift to cuisine on Kitchen Nightmares.
Ha! I don’t get the connection, but I’m watching KN reruns as I type this.
He’s an idiot who thinks he’s the pinnacle of knowledge.
Sounds like every bible thumper and MAGAt.
An incel stuck in a dead end job
Statistically?
Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.
He’s very autistic, but if he weren’t a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn’t be there. (Although being from South Africa, he’d probably still be a massive Racist)
This means there’s a 93.4% chance he’d be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.
He doesn’t seem like a furry trans girl though.
Eh. There’s plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he’d been given unlimited internet access without also being a public figure).
And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don’t run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.
Isn’t he a furry already? Didn’t he share a ratboy meme or something?
either apartheid militant or apartheid apologist. or someone tryna bring it back, but in too low rank a role to do anything
Skid row
/r9k/
