I’d be fine with not really dunking on him if he was just a rando saying stupid shit if it wasn’t for Worthington’s Law. Whole lotta idiots think that because someone has money that their opinion matters just by that fact alone.
So if he’s going to have that kind of money and simultaneously say really stupid things, well, that’s a problem.
TBF, he dropped out of Harvard.
100%. Even if true, it’s 16.7 hours if he divides it up evenly between 6 companies. Which is about two eight-hour days.
Also, does anyone really think that working 14.3 hours, 7 days a week, is sustainable? I don’t believe he’s working 100 hours a week.
Anyway, the more that a certain type of person lionizes Elon as the pinnacle of American-style capitalism, the more they are actually doing quite a lot to tear down their bullshit narratives they’ve worked so hard for decades to build about executive pay.
Most of us probably knew quite well it was nonsense, probably even saw examples in our lives of people in the C-suite who were quite full of themselves and how “hard” they “work”, while taking quite a bit of the credit and almost all of the profits. Oh, and if they fail, these self-styled heroes don’t go down with the ship like mere hoi polloi heroes. Oh no, these heroes of capitalism will parachute out and land on gigantic piles of cash as a result of failing. But we were told these people are like top athletes and put in so much hours of intense visionary work, at a pace few other humans could ever do, and so they deserve all this cushy treatment.
With Elon, the math is just self-evident. Being an executive, in one of the most successful cases, is most definitely a part-time job.
This guy thinks a dementia test is used to measure IQ, too.
In other words, he is entirely unfit for the job.
But that was part of the “waste, fraud, and abuse”!
What’s that you say? There is no evidence of that? Well, the morons that kept repeating (and keep repeating) that phrase like trained pets had no definition of that phrase and no evidence for any of it, any more so than they did for “voter fraud”, so I guess destroying literally anything in the government could be justified by claiming it was “waste, fraud, and abuse”.
I’m not sure I follow the logic here. Voting for a Democrat brought us to fascism?
I love this.
It’s interesting to note that given the evidence of Elon, that being a CEO is a part time job. It has to be. It’s impossible for Elon to work 40 hours a week at 6 companies.
And I’ve always been told by the people that excuse outrageously out-of-step executive pay with this bullshit narrative about how they are the best and the brightest (just like top athletes, don’t you know!), and they work long hours, probably more than anyone else at the company and other such hilarious fictions. They are basically the Michael Jordans of capitalism, yadda yadda.
This guy cannot be working even 40 hours at all six of his companies. That’s simply impossible, even if he never slept.
It’s pretty obvious now that being a CEO is a part-time job. If only everyone could get 1 trillion at a part-time job.
Time for ANOTHER Gatsby party, just a different host, I guess.
Also, LOL: “entrepreneur”. Fucking hell.
So (their) churches should run childcare facilities and public transit? In a country founded as a secular nation, no less. That must make for some wild conversations. I’d sure love to know more about how that would be funded, never mind the implementation.
Questions like: how do we decide which churches are worthy? There are approx 45,000 denominations of Christianity and that’s just Christianity…
Is he going to skip off to Galt’s Gulch now? 🤣
The vibe i am getting from overall media in the Us is that some leans “liberal” and some leans “conservative” but they all protect the interests of billionaires or are downright owned by them.
This is pretty much my view on it. For the most part, the way they may lean “liberal” would be on the margins, maybe something like identity politics. Anything that might mess with oligarchs’ money or question something like our relationship with Israel is usually out of bounds.
I didn’t start really paying attention until the early 90s, but it’s been more or less like this as far as things I’ve noticed. Chomsky says similar things going much further back in relation to the corporate media. Movies like Network lampoon it…
I don’t think it’s been getting any better - with deregulation and consolidation, it seems to be getting even worse.
Even before Bezos bought it, I don’t think they were all that liberal. I’m sure it’s only gotten worse, though.
I would lead with your values and ask questions like why they think childcare or public transit are bad things.
Yeah, there is very little that is “radical” about Zohran. Especially when you contrast that with what the Republican Party is actually carrying out against the American people right now and we don’t even have to get into what they may or may not believe or what they want to do, in theory. We can see that with our own eyes.
That’s not even getting into the completely crazy shit that their funders are influenced by: insane dumbasses like Curtis Yarvin, who is so full of Dunning-Kruger that he seemingly is convinced he’s a genius and books like The Sovereign Individual.
It’s also not getting into how the more overtly racist part of the party is excited by books like The Camp of the Saints…
He thinks that because he is grifting like a motherfucker and racking up billions in schemes like crypto shitcoins.
He is completely divorced from reality.
Paying people for work is just that “waste, fraud, and abuse” the Confederates kept babbling about.
In addition, I really do wonder how much he does really give away by the time all is said and done?
After all, he DID set up a foundation, and we all know what that means. Or every American SHOULD know what those mean…I don’t know if there have been any good documentaries since, but I highly recommend the book:
The Rich and the Super-rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_60_Families#The_Rich_and_the_Super-Rich