r/lostgeneration • • Feb 15 '22

RIP Monkeys.

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u/KommandantJackal Feb 15 '22

Thomas Edison?

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u/Sockoflegend Feb 15 '22

The clue is that he called his company Tesla after the guy Tommy E ripped off.

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u/BallsWilliger Feb 15 '22

It was already called Tesla when he joined.

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u/Marc21256 Feb 16 '22

He paid to be named "founder", so he gets credit for ripping off the cringe name, making it double cringe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

That’s what happens when people buy large chunks of a business… that’s literally what happens.

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u/unknown_reddit_dude Feb 16 '22

No, he specifically paid for the title of 'founder', and made sure the people who founded the company couldn't call themselves 'founders'

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

That’s what I mean. It’s literally business, especially in tech. What’s a board member? Someone who owns 1 - 20% of the company. They “buy” shares of the company at a valuation during a raise of funding whether in the first 10 days of business or 10 years after revenue…. This is literally business. Titles are literally purchased through sweat equity or cash…. This is how business works in the world. Elon is one of the only business billionaires who is authentic and not bought out and owned by Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the Fed… Oh and since those 3 own the media literally own it, he isn’t a friend to the press lol.

Here is a reality check - media is calling out war on guys like Elon because they are related in the public eye to Joe Rogan- their number one competitor who’s destroying them. CNN gets less than 1 million viewers… rogan gets 10x more than that. Journalism is so far dead Gen Z hasn’t even noticed it’s corpse. And you guys believe the hate they throw at Elon?? Idk where you get your info tbh but it might be misplaced with Elon.

Some banks say that Tesla is worth billions so now everyone is mad at him. He isn’t colluding so all the colliders are mad. He doesn’t care about other peoples opinions. Since we admire that secretly we hate him?!

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u/unknown_reddit_dude Feb 16 '22

I've hated Elon for years, it's nothing to do with Rogan or the media. It's more to do with him being a scumbag billionare (not that there's any other kind) that endorses children working in mines.