Remembering Maple today - it was five years ago on this day we said goodbye, yet it still feels like yesterday. I miss you every day, Maple. What a wonderful world it was with you ❤️
Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?
It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.
Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.
Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.
This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.
Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.
His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.
If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.
@tisOzois@sonyanotdead Ебать, главный специалист по эстетике в целом и маникюру в частности) Иди консультируй тогда, че тут в комментах дар растрачивать)
@tisOzois@sonyanotdead Дорогой мой, нравятся они тебе или нет - никого, кроме тебя, ебать не должно)
Главное, что барышня довольна. Похвали, и сиди довольный, что хорошее дело сделал. Своей критикой ты никому не всрался. Она сама решит, что ей нравится, а что нет
@ugerfeldich@raykonvey@sonyanotdead Так, теперь тебе. Поплевать мы можем и друг в друга, если очень хочется. То, что меня возмутило прежде всего в комментах - именно полное отсутствие уважения. И да, лично мне стыдно за других мужчин, когда они ведут себя как свиньи. За тебя, получается, тоже стыдно
@raykonvey@ugerfeldich@sonyanotdead Девушка, я в целом мог бы сам за себя постоять, но отвлекся от твиттера)
Моя глубокая благодарность и уважение за аргументацию)