Elon Musk

xps

the irony is that the one rich guy who cashed out and seems to be living the life is Tom from Myspace, whose social media profiles are all just chill vibes and beautiful locales last time I checked.

this guy gets it

https://i.postimg.cc/kGrzbt93/Screen-Shot-2022-12-16-at-4-39-00-PM.png

“It looks like toddlers put this together during recess.” The shoddy build quality of a brand new Tesla. pic.twitter.com/5IC2TkEIZm

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) December 16, 2022

car guys vs musk is the real grudge

The god damned door trim

https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/

xxxxxp Most of us can play for only so long. But there is so much need in the world, and there are many good causes looking to address that need. Any of these guys could alleviate a whole lot of human suffering, find meaningful and rewarding human engagement, and still have enough wealth to last several lifetimes.

yeah like the Caruso guy who blew $100 million trying to win the LA mayor's race so he could fix homelessness

instead of just using the $100 million to fix homelessness

this is a dril tweet pic.twitter.com/xhkkTHzJzT

— sclv (@sclv) December 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Bfscle7aA

xp Yeah, fuck that guy.

One of the problems with so many of these guys is that, because they happened to have made a shitload of money (most often from a combination of being in the right place at the right time and recognizing that circumstance), they think they are smarter than everyone else (they're usually not) and good at everything (they're definitely not).

Sorry, meant to post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2dDyeRkfSg

Xpost sure I get that but honestly Myspace Tom is doing better just by doing nothing than most of these guys actively making it worse. Like they could just go on vacation all the time and be extraordinary tippers and do more good.

But there is so much need in the world, and there are many good causes looking to address that need. Any of these guys could alleviate a whole lot of human suffering, find meaningful and rewarding human engagement, and still have enough wealth to last several lifetimes.

Not a single one of these ghouls should be actively involved in the policy of 'good causes.' Putting them on a beach and blinding them with coke and hookers is the best case scenario aside from just taking their money away by force.

why would u do that to innocent hookers

xp otm

this is good https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy

(i think the best thing that can be said for EA is it's stupid rather than evil in the way most philanthropy is evil)

nah it's still pretty evil

Establishing your own egotistical charity is awful, but someone giving all their money to like, Doctors Without Borders, with no strings attached is fine.

🐦[Elon Musk’s team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti🕸 https://t.co/ujZOYxlfQG🕸
— Liz Hoffman (@lizrhoffman) December 16, 2022🕸]🐦

My nonprofit employer got some big no-strings-attached donations from MacKenzie Scott's foundation and she actually kinda rules

squandering her divorce settlement on worthy NGO's all over the world without micromanaging or telling them how to spend it = classic

Yeah she's done it right. Essentially releasing half of Bezos's money up to that point into the world.

Despite her massive first round of donations (another is to follow), she still came out ahead since Amazon stock went up so much during the pandemic

proving the only good billionaire is the billionaire who doesn't want to be a billionaire

(but she should likely try harder)

Gates Foundation is not bad but they're definitely a more traditional philanthropic foundation, they expect reporting

Looks like everyone who watches Elonjet on Twitch is getting reported and suspended for glorifying violence

What the fuck are you talking about. Where have I ever said anything like this.

This is super bullshit. pic.twitter.com/4jLixKmbGE

— carter. (banned arc) (@CarterForNow) December 16, 2022

The gates foundation is very bad actually

i was gonna say, when the revolution comes we empty the gates foundation's pockets

srsly, the worst example possible

The Gates Foundation gave us the microchips in the vaccine, so there's that. (The m in mRNA stands for Microsoft.)

NBC has responded to Musk banning reporters by… suspending a reporter who was critical of Musk.

xp no we're not joking abt Gates

the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t just spend its own money. As much as 40 percent of a foundation’s assets represent funds that otherwise would have been collected by governments as income and estate taxes.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/is-the-gates-foundation-out-of-control/

also helping to eradicate polio but whatever

If we took his money we could use it to eradicate polio without his pet project of union busting teachers coming along for the ride.

Keep caping for Epstein’s bro, though.

i don't think "we" could do that, actually

Linsey McGoey's book No Such Thing as a Free Gift gets into the details as to why the Gates Foundation is bad - it's from 2015 and needs a post-covid update but this interview from July is up to date: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/how-bill-gates-makes-the-world-worse-off

Looking forward to Tim Schwab's book on Gates due out next year. His twitter is a constant stream on how Gates sucks.
Recent article from him: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/

if you'd like to witness something truly deranged I would encourage you to check out the frequency with which Elon Musk replies to an unaffiliated twitter blue account called "musk university" that just quotes him https://t.co/a8pwrPak8T pic.twitter.com/z3FtAePOPL

— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) December 17, 2022

The current top read article on English Wikipedia is the one on the Streisand Effect btw

Well, until Musk buys Wikipedia

gates is a monster who has killed far more people than musk has yet and his PR is somehow more insidious since normal people seem to buy it without necessarily becoming stans - something that seems impossible for musk to achieve especially now

lol at people defending Gates

the shit they pulled around commercializing the covid vaccine was real bad

bill gates is the most powerful person in public health, because hes good at computer

every billionaire is a policy failure and an assassination co-ordinate (parody)

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even when an ultra rich entity gives their money away in a way thats not an exercise in extending their political power, which it almost always is see bill gates, they are still unwilling to address the fundamental problem theyve caused which is that they and their cronies are hoarding the worlds resources, in fact they think they deserve to do it and its good, and we should be grateful for whatever they give back however they decide to do it, which is why effective altruism is so silly theyre never actually willing to do the effective thing

I have zero interest in defending Bill Gates the individual, I don't think billionaires should exist, and I recognize some of the inherent problems in large-scale philanthropy as it is often practiced. That said, I find some of the dismissiveness of the Gates Foundation, which employs hundreds of people who are working to improve health, education, and economic outcomes around the world and partners with other organizations to increase its impact, rather annoyingly smug.

just imagine how annoying it must be for us to see you uncritically repeating corporate pr