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We live in a strange world. No one should worship that sad narcissistic piece of crap but yet the sycophants continue to multiply.

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Arguably the greatest entrepreneur in history. Is that worthy of some praise?

Think I'd still go with Rockefeller on that one.

One oil company?

You're trolling, aren't you? No one can be this stupid, especially not someone who reads this blog.

How so? I consider multiple creations substantially more impressive than one.

Then you'll be very impressed by the number of creations Rockefeller had. Standard Oil itself was an empire, not a factory, in a time when it took weeks and an army to get even information sent out.

Carnegie was incredible as well.

I'm not saying Elon isn't impressive, he is. He's just not the MOST impressive.

One tiny space sailing company and a shoddy carriage company compare poorly to the empires of Standard Oil, Carnegie steel, Ford, and the side projects of these people (multiple high impact philanthropic enterprises). They're the literal hands that built America.

He's still young though, there's some hope for him.

I'm confused. Rockefeller now gets credit for Carngeie, Mellon and Ford? Spacex, the by far most prolific private space company ever is a "tiny space company"? The by far most consequential EV company is a "shoddy carriage company"? And not even mentioning Zip2, PayPal, OpenAI, Boring or Neuralink? Wow.

_the_ oil company.

Ooh I can argue against that! I mean, he's clearly not. He's more of a fantastically savvy investor than anything else. The man clearly does not run any of his companies because it's impossible to run 3 companies at once. Don't let him fool you. It is IMPOSSIBLE.

There are clearly far FAR better entrepreneurs in history but if you keep fellating him I'm sure Daddy Elon will love you one day. You got this, don't give up!

Care to name one or 2?

I think this has to do with the growing margin between the richest/upper class and poorest folks. Sure you find plenty of HN folks doing 3.5 X average salary.. but majority, considering inflation etc, are not doing this well.

So average poor Joe looks at Musk and instead of seeing him for what he is, he cheers him up, thinking "one day I will be like him [that rich], so I would want people to cherish me the way I cherish him now". I think we see that on every front, sadly including politics. I mean people like Boebert or MTG should have never had any power even to decide what mix to use to clean a dirty floor, yet alone deciding on millions of American's fate, but yet here we are...

If anything, this numbness and ignorance will grow.

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