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points by rdiddly 1 day ago | 0 comments
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[–] dilap 1 day ago
You guys are living in a different universe. I can get hating Elon, but mediocre? Really? Completely absurd.
[–] rdiddly 1 day ago
I mean the things you acknowledge people hating him for probably overlap considerably with the things I'm thinking of when declaring him mediocre. To pick just one: Think of the boring CEOs who work hard to instill and drive an inclusive culture at their companies, and who make sure their people are treated as human beings. You haven't heard of any, because they're not out there trying to be an entertainment personality.
[–] oortoo 1 day ago
Outside of hoarding wealth, I haven't seen much evidence that Elon is particularly good at anything.
[–] dilap 1 day ago
What wealth did he hoard? His wealth is all in his ownership of companies he lead to great success.
[–] kattagarian 1 day ago
He just spend 400 million dollars on the election, half of this in texas alone.
[–] sejje 1 day ago
Spending is the opposite of hoarding
[–] dilap 1 day ago
He doesn't seem very politicallly...effective.

But anyway, I don't think it's fair to say he "hoarded" wealth. It's all from ownership in companies he led, or selling stock in said companies. It's not like, I don't know, post-soviet Russian oligarchs or Carlos Slim or something, who you could all reasonably say were hoarding wealth.