Current Events > Admit it, Elon Musk is smarter than you.

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Orlando_Jordan
11/01/21 5:17:32 PM
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He knows how to run a profitable cutting edge company. He knows tax loopholes. He's the world's richest man.
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toreysback
11/01/21 5:18:08 PM
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i don't understand

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Vermander
11/01/21 5:19:06 PM
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Is this something a well adjusted person would care about?
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BloodMoon7
11/01/21 5:19:19 PM
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Thanks Captain Obvious

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LostForest
11/01/21 5:19:53 PM
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In all likelihood he really is, lol. I'm not gonna argue.

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KingOf7Seas
11/01/21 5:20:22 PM
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Jump off Jordan
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gunplagirl
11/01/21 5:21:32 PM
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He doesn't know tax loopholes, his financial advisors, lawyers, and tax guys do though.

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Doe
11/01/21 5:22:14 PM
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Is Elon even a level 2 super-genius?

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rexcrk
11/01/21 5:22:36 PM
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Well yeah

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Southernfatman
11/01/21 5:22:42 PM
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Ok. So?

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pogo_rabid
11/01/21 5:24:17 PM
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The only thing Elon is smart at is hiring the right people to do his taxes and run his companies. All he does is act as a hype/front man.

He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth with south african apartheid money.

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The Wheelman1
11/01/21 5:25:22 PM
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Of course. He's smarter than all of us. I wont deny that.

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Hoodroar
11/01/21 5:28:14 PM
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Maybe but he had a way better headstart in life than me too. Who knows where anyone here would be if we were born into wealth.
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Maninstagnate
11/01/21 5:31:13 PM
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pogo_rabid posted...
The only thing Elon is smart at is hiring the right people to do his taxes and run his companies. All he does is act as a hype/front man.

He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth with south african apartheid money.
Yet those smart people that made him successful aren't complaing about anything, still working with him, and probably are getting paid better by him than they would by anyone else.
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pikachupwnage
11/01/21 5:34:41 PM
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I'm not an evil arrogant man child though so I think I win

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WeeWeiWiiWie
11/01/21 5:40:04 PM
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Dude's a con-artist, at best.

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Anteaterking
11/01/21 5:41:28 PM
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Ignoring TC, what standards would someone have to meet to be considered "smarter" than Elon Musk in technical matters? Aka not measuring it based on business success or something.

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Orlando_Jordan
11/01/21 5:45:17 PM
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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...
Dude's a con-artist, at best.
The man changed the world and made electric cars popular. We're finally getting away from fossil fuels and taking better care of our planet. But he's a con-artist.
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Damn_Underscore
11/01/21 5:55:50 PM
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Reading his biography on Wikipedia, a lot of these posts are misleading or just not true. You can dislike him without lying about him.

He is a smart techie guy who was born at the right time (graduated college right at the beginning of the dot com boom) and got rich thanks to his first tech company. Then he got obscenely rich thanks to his second company and PayPal. Tesla was a lucky investment but SpaceX seems like a legit and admirable business venture by him.

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WeeWeiWiiWie
11/01/21 5:59:33 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
SpaceX seems like a legit and admirable business venture by him.

Don't think moon trips for billionaires is really admiral even if you can wrap a nice "science!!" veneer around it.

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Crescente
11/01/21 5:59:36 PM
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Dude makes re-usable rockets that can self-adjust during landing. He made electric cars popular.

Yeah, I'd say he's pretty smart.
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Crescente
11/01/21 6:06:05 PM
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https://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/13/elon-musks-10-greatest-inventions-changing-the-world.html

He's also working on a new mass transportation method. Could change the world.

He's also one of the hardest working people in the world. Guy works 15 hours a day or something like that.
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Nemu
11/01/21 6:09:29 PM
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He's smart in some ways but a moron in others. Only a moron or a scam artist would still be peddling impossible shit like the hyper loop at this point.
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MacadamianNut3
11/01/21 6:15:20 PM
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Maninstagnate posted...
Yet those smart people that made him successful aren't complaing about anything, still working with him, and probably are getting paid better by him than they would by anyone else
Is this supposed to be a point or just "people like to make money" Captain Obvious stuff

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Anteaterking
11/01/21 6:19:22 PM
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Elon Musk specifically chooses projects that make him look like an engineering bro and you still get people who would otherwise consider themselves smart falling for it.

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David1988
11/01/21 6:21:44 PM
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I dont doubt, even if I was born into wealth I still wouldnt have had anywhere close to the success he had. Millions of people are born into wealth worldwide, not all of them go on to become the wealthiest person on the planet

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Key
11/01/21 6:26:07 PM
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Hoodroar posted...
Maybe but he had a way better headstart in life than me too. Who knows where anyone here would be if we were born into wealth.
There's plenty of people born into families as rich or richer than his thst accomplished much less

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Hoodroar
11/01/21 6:32:35 PM
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Key posted...

There's plenty of people born into families as rich or richer than his thst accomplished much less

That's them. I'm talking about us. It's an unknown.
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David1988
11/01/21 6:38:13 PM
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Hoodroar posted...
That's them. I'm talking about us. It's an unknown.

I mean, statistically speaking, you arent going to end up the wealthiest person on the planet even if you were born into wealth. Unless you somehow had exceptional success for the level of wealth you were born into, youre probably not going to be exceptional even if you were born into money.

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josiskrazy
11/01/21 6:38:59 PM
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pogo_rabid posted...
The only thing Elon is smart at is hiring the right people to do his taxes and run his companies.

This.

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Key
11/01/21 6:55:36 PM
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Hoodroar posted...
That's them. I'm talking about us. It's an unknown.
Sure you never know. But if you haven't shown any outstanding potential so far its unlikely the qealth would've changed that

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Lebronwon
11/01/21 6:58:50 PM
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1450212973314658305

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IShall_Run_Amok
11/01/21 7:00:00 PM
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Maybe, but I don't deserve to go to prison for his crimes.

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Hoodroar
11/01/21 10:11:23 PM
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David1988 posted...


I mean, statistically speaking, you arent going to end up the wealthiest person on the planet even if you were born into wealth. Unless you somehow had exceptional success for the level of wealth you were born into, youre probably not going to be exceptional even if you were born into money.

Obviously. But statistically, the grand majority of the world's wealthiest people weren't born dirt poor either. It's still a significant factor.

Key posted...

Sure you never know. But if you haven't shown any outstanding potential so far its unlikely the qealth would've changed that

Uncertain. Some people just give up if they didn't get any conditions conducive to success. Drop out rates are significantly higher in poor neighborhoods than in decent neighborhoods, for example. If those people had something to build on, they'd have been less likely to quit.
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ScazarMeltex
11/01/21 10:13:03 PM
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Crescente posted...
Dude makes re-usable rockets that can self-adjust during landing. He made electric cars popular.

Yeah, I'd say he's pretty smart.
His companies and their employees make those things. He doesn't design, engineer, or construct them.

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bladegash
11/01/21 10:18:48 PM
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I dunno. I won a chess tournament one time.

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Maninstagnate
11/01/21 10:28:33 PM
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MacadamianNut3 posted...
Is this supposed to be a point or just "people like to make money" Captain Obvious stuff
Point is those who work with him are probably smarter than politicians and university professors who claim "Rich People=Evil".
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Lorkh
11/01/21 10:51:10 PM
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Maninstagnate posted...
Point is those who work with him are probably smarter than politicians and university professors who claim "Rich People=Evil".
Hey whatdyaknow more 15 year old accounts suddenly appearing to post rightwing nonsense

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Key
11/02/21 7:52:17 AM
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Hoodroar posted...
Uncertain. Some people just give up if they didn't get any conditions conducive to success. Drop out rates are significantly higher in poor neighborhoods than in decent neighborhoods, for example. If those people had something to build on, they'd have been less likely to quit.
Sure I won't deny those in really poor neighborhoods are disadvantaged. Especially in violent/dangerous cities. But those born into middle class have more than enough opportunity to succeed. And even those who are poor have options and it'd up to the individual to take it.

Some people start off with a advantage and thats life but giving up and saying my life will suck because my parents are poor is a personal decision and not a excuse.

My family was well below the poverty line and while in far from elon musk now im comfortably in the upper middle class with room and plans to go up

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Demon1050
11/02/21 8:48:19 AM
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as far as iq goes it's arguable.

He's shorter than me. What's that worth?
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wiiking96
11/02/21 8:53:37 AM
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pogo_rabid posted...
The only thing Elon is smart at is hiring the right people to do his taxes and run his companies. All he does is act as a hype/front man.

He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth with south african apartheid money.
^^^^^^^^^

People constantly seem to forget that the ultra wealthy can just . . . pay other people to do all the thinking for them.

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IShall_Run_Amok
11/02/21 9:45:01 AM
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wiiking96 posted...
^^^^^^^^^

People constantly seem to forget that the ultra wealthy can just . . . pay other people to do all the thinking for them.
Cappies didn't forget, they just think that this is a virtue.

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