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Comment by medium_burrito | Hacker News Reader

Is it time to coin the term "Elon Envy"?

"When a billionaire is insecure because Elon Musk gets all the press and adoration and is pulling humanity's sorry ass forward more or less by himself (as a corporate leader)."

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"Elon Envy", because the only way to try to compete with one of Musk's many side project is to make it their primary focus.

If I were Jeff I'd be calling up Elon and thanking him for taking all of the attention away so I can do what I want.

Perhaps I just don't have the ego to be a billionaire.

IDK Elon gets some (deserved in my opinion) love. Jeff seems to be the butt of more of the "kill the rich" rhetoric such as the guillotine outside his house. Personally if I was a billionaire, I would do everything possible to keep my name out of the media and pop culture.

>IDK Elon gets some (deserved in my opinion) love. Jeff seems to be the butt of more of the "kill the rich" rhetoric such as the guillotine outside his house

Agreed, but I kind of figure that comes with the territory.

Elon is called an idiot and a charlatan more often because of things like Hyperloop and the Joe Rogan interview. I'm probably projecting but that'd hurt me more than the guillotine.

Yeah I think I would feel differently. I would be much more upset by a guillotine outside my house (that's almost KKK levels of hatred) than people thinking I'm dumb for one reason or another, especially if I was the person who brought good electric cars and reusable rockets into existence.

Bezos owns the WP, he can get all the press he wants.

Musk has been trolling him for over a decade on Blue Origin, and it keeps plodding along. It's the SpaceX fanboys who can't stop talking about JB as though it's all some d**fest.

Billionaire Problems are real!

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