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Elon Musk has lost more than anyone else in the history of the world. - Dark Jaguar - 5th January 2023
At least in terms of money. He lost hundreds of billions because he didn't like having his trans joke taking down that one time. He did it all to himself of course.
And, even though he lost ALL of that, he's STILL one of the richest people in the world. This is damning. This is a fundamental failure of the capitalist system that such a thing is even possible. No one person could ever, EVER do enough to justify having THAT much money. No one's work anywhere is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, each billion, remember, being a thousand millions.
RE: Elon Musk has lost more than anyone else in the history of the world. - Weltall - 6th January 2023
The myth that a guy like Musk rose to his own financial stratosphere through hard work, grit and determination, that's the lie they tell us so that we emulate this alleged example and produce more, harder, faster. In reality, guys this wealthy disdain the very idea of 'work'. Labor is for peasants. Gaining massive wealth is only possible by directing the peasants and entitling yourself to a thousand times as much of the wealth they produce as they get for producing it. That's the whole point of being rich in the first place, and the only people who get to that level in the first place, are exactly the sort of people who are prone to using their resources for all the wrong reasons.
RE: Elon Musk has lost more than anyone else in the history of the world. - Dark Jaguar - 10th January 2023
No one, anywhere, has ever done anything worth giving them hundreds of billions of dollars. No one anywhere could ever deserve that kind of wealth, no matter how many jobs they created. We should see this kind of wealth as an obscenity in and of itself, akin to drawings of the old oil barons or old world paintings of bloated demons stomping on hundreds of peasants or just... the tale of Midas.
This isn't a matter that can be resolved by individual billionaires having individual epiphanies and "changing their ways". The solution must be a radical shift in the system that brought about this obscenity.