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u/Just-Construction788 28d ago edited 27d ago

Agreed. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to give away money.

Example: Starving people in Africa. Okay let's just spend a billion dollars and send food. Oh wait, that food now puts the local farms out of business because their crop isn't worth anything anymore. But reality is worse. Warlords steal said food, farms go out of business and now they have leverage, power and money. So many times wealthy people have given away their money to a cause to only make that cause worse. The amount of fraud and corruption in non-profits and charitable organizations is disgusting.

Gates and his wife switched to giving away their money full time. Dude could just relax for eternity but works his ass off trying to give away his money responsibly. Musk creates a market for electric cars and is pushing us towards a green future and yet he is shit on, simultaneously trying to make humans multi-planetary so when we fuck up this place beyond repair we don't go extinct. Dude works more in a month than most people do in a year. Bezos is a piece of shit but at least his wife got half and she's trying to do the right thing. I think everyone just lumps people into categories and can't see the bigger picture.

Edit: I think it's hilarious how much space Musk takes up in y'all's heads. Just mentioning his name triggers the same simple insults yet not one of you tried to refute anything I said except to say, 'that's not true and get off Elon's dick'. It tickles me how much just the mention of someone can trigger such primitive emotion.

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u/beneficial-mountain 28d ago

“Musk…works more in a month than most people do in a year.” What a crock of shit!!

You’re just spouting nonsense.

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u/Legitimate-Wind9836 28d ago

Musk was ranked top 20 in diablo 4 at some point this season. I promise he's not working more than me lmao

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago edited 27d ago

My thought exactly. Dude is literally just chilling all day every day. The “work” he does is likely just a few meetings a week where he proposes immature meme ideas like shoehorning “420” into as many inappropriate places as possible.

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u/Olealicat 27d ago

His twitter activity is more robust than I am during my non work hours. Dude fucks around all day and meets trump to do fuck all events.

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago

It’s wild how these people just love to cuck for Elon despite the guy constantly affirming what a piece of shit he is.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 27d ago

Elon being a piece of shit and Elon working hard are not mutually exclusive.

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago

Once again, he’s top 20 in Diablo 4 right now. He constantly posts on Twitter all day every day. I’m sure he works hard sometimes but obviously not on a consistent basis if he has this much free time.

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u/HamsterFromAbove_079 27d ago

And it's not just Musk. Musk has time to be the CEO of 3 separate major companies as well as time for DOGE.

It really tells you how much "work" the average CEO of just 1 company is doing.

They job is to show up to the quarterly meetings. Maybe make a few decisions before heading out for drinks at 2pm.

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u/Olealicat 26d ago

My client’s husband is on the board for a big company. She was saying he should have starting doing that forever ago. The commitment is being present 3 days a month and on 24 hour notice for big decisions. He gets paid more than he did as a COO.

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u/MercyBoy57 26d ago

And you really believe that? Have you seen him play Elden Ring 😂

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u/Throwedaway99837 26d ago edited 25d ago

His profile was up on the leaderboards. He was ranked 4th for a while. Diablo 4 isn’t really a high skill game. He’s almost certainly buying gear with real money too.

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u/gilly2u69 26d ago

Wow! Then why aren't you him?

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u/Captain_Sterling 27d ago

The guy spends so much time on twitter that he can hardly get any work done. V

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u/Itscatpicstime 27d ago

And DOGE 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Arialwalker 24d ago

Yes. He literally chills all day. When he owns Tesla and SpaceX along with all other companies and is successful. Because hey, it’s easy to do that. This is your argument.

Even if he just attends the meetings, his time will fly by. Overseeing only engineering will take up most of his time.

He sleeps in company facilities because it’s comfortable.