I would encourage you to read the classic children's fairy tale 'Puss in Boots', if you think this idea is new.
today?
Yeah. Back in the day you needed forced labour and violent conquest to become rich. Becoming the richest in the world through something as benign as fraud is relatively new.
Tulip bubbles and pretending you had a slave run higly profitable African gold mine etc are hardly new.
Can we not make every HN thread about Elon Musk? It hardly adds to the conversation.
I’ve actually noted a stark decline in the amount of Elon sycophantism on HN. Maybe it’s because he’s fallen out of the news cycle, but I haven’t heard a word out of his mouth, ironically, since he bought Twitter.
I thought Elon Musk was a phony before it was cool.