People like him are legitimately such massive failures.
Countless people could do better... Millions - no, billions of us. Instead, we have edgelords like him in positions of immense power and influence.
He is the personification of everything wrong with the world today.
Amen to that.
The fact that people idolize him just boggles the mind. How much of a failure does someone have to be to look at Musk and go "this is my kind of guy"?
You wouldn't get where he is because to be billionaire is to be a sociopath.
Unless you inherit your fortune, you've crushed countless businesses and employees just to get more money.
Apartheid emerald mine nepo baby still exploiting poors to this day.
if you could so easily have done better, why didn't you?
Or do you mean growing up in South Africa was a generational privilege you didn't have access to?
Yeah he kinda like that
This applies to most politicians today.
Remember when we all thought he was about space exploration? Better times.
He steals all his memes anyways. He's a meme robber baron
Noooooooooope. That’s Elon-gated.
Am I now a fElon?
Are there any billionaires who actively use their wealth for good? I only know about 2 and even those idk if I should count. One was some guy that gave all his billions to charity and kept for himself only one million. Other is bezos's ex wife, as far as I know she periodically sends very large sums of money to charity.
Idk I feel like writing a check for charity is not good enough, they could be so much more active and done lot more if they idk... build hospital, shool.... cheap housing etc.
I'm of the "there are no ethical billionaires" school of thought. And veeeery often the charities they do give to are some sort of tax evasion schemes that employ eg. family members and that only actually use a tiny percentage of the "donated" funds for actual charity
An individual giving money to good causes will always be limited by the fact that it is based on the whims/biases of that individual. So, it is possible to see that some billionaires like Bill Gates and (dare I say it..) J K Rowling give substantial amounts to charities - we can also see that they are donating to personal pet causes. Society already has a way for rich people to give to a structured system that (attempts to) give(s) out the money to a wide variety of causes - its called tax and the system is government! If these people who society has allowed to become so wealthy just paid taxes and supported a proper, fair government then they wouldn't need charities... but then they wouldn't get to name buildings after themselves.
George Clooney is worth 450 million and has his satellite project. Any possible "ethical billionaire" probably lives a private life or has diverted enough of their wealth to preclude themselves from being a billionaire.
Bill Gates has given huge amounts to charity, as in a massive chunk of his net worth, he eventually plans to give away the vast majority of it.
Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AtkAHkKEc
Taylor Swift
The 2006 secret santa guy who handed-out large sums of cash to people who were shopping in thrift secondhand stores. Billionaire or millionaire? Wiki says, "Stewart made his fortune through cable television and long-distance calling". Plus I recall a vague memory from the news where he said, "I've been in Forbes Top 100 everything far longer that I can remember". So that's something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Stewart_(philanthropist)
