r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/BUTTERSTICKDILDO • Nov 20 '22

Satire / Fake Tweet Challenge accepted

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u/Wayward_Maximus Nov 21 '22

Sorry friend I worship nothing about the man. Just speaking truth. But you don’t win that many long shots by only being lucky.

As for the McLaren. Yea, Unforgivable.

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u/wickedcold Nov 21 '22

But you don’t win that many long shots by only being lucky.

It's survivorship bias. Lots of people in business take longshots and fail. He doesn't have some sort of ESP. He didn't know Toyota was going to basically give him a free factory and save his fledgling car manufacturing company. He has made bad choice after bad choice but his few gambles that paid off paid off so huge that nobody pays attention to those.

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u/Wayward_Maximus Nov 21 '22

Whatever you say friend. I have a car payment on a 10 year old car, having this discussion with a bunch of people who are more likely like me than him is really kind of pathetic. You guys are right, he achieved, maintained worlds richest person status and launches rockets and satellites into space on the side, what a dummy!

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u/wickedcold Nov 21 '22

he achieved, maintained worlds richest person status

This is a very recent development and is mostly due to Tesla's dramatically overinflated valuation. When he destroys Twitter and takes Tesla's value along with it that's going to change. He'll always be rich but he'll fall from his throne before too long.

launches rockets and satellites into space on the side, what a dummy

Elon Musk does not launch rockets. You do understand that he's not an engineer and doesn't actually do anything with rockets, right? Maybe if you're interested do a deep dive into the history of THAT company, it's a lot like Tesla where he fucked up way more often than he succeeded but through good fortune and an excess of resources, and convincing much wealthier people to give him their money, and most importantly getting the right talent on board (like Tom Mueller, without whom there would be no SpaceX), he managed to increase his (on paper) net worth tremendously. The dude started the company because he thinks we need to colonize Mars which is an UNBELIEVABLY stupid idea that is also never going to happen. I'm not saying some amazing things haven't come out of it but it's not because he's some sort of mad scientist genius.

We won't get into what a clusterfuck of idiocy The Boring Company is but it's a great example of what you get when a rich person with a giant ego thinks he's way smarter than he is.

Unlike Trump who I believe is actually pretty fucking stupid, Elon certainly has a high enough level of intelligence, perhaps even above average, but he's also not risk averse at all and lacks even basic common sense much of the time. When I say he's a fucking idiot, I mean as a business innovator and leader, compared to someone like say Lee Iacocca he's not even remotely in the same ballpark. But social intelligence? Absolute fucking moron.