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Elon Musk single handedly pushing usage of solar and reducing fossil fuels in cars. Jeff Bezo drove costs down for consumer products. Peter Thiel and Elon at PayPal reduced financial transaction costs... and then you're complaining they didn't do enough?

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I'm pretty unconvinced that 3 of the 4 people in that list did anything.

The US car industry was definitely firmly moving away from EVs so I'll grant that one about Musk. Although; I do think all the chinese EVs would've existed without him.

Amazon is not the cheapest place to get goods. It's wildly convenient though.

Electronic checks pre-date paypal by 2 years so I'm not giving them credit for anything.

> Jeff Bezo drove costs down for consumer products

By resale of $2.99 stuff from AliExpress for $29.99? That’s what Amazon is today, full of discounts from renown brands like BSTOEM and SPHOEN. /s

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