Abusing his workers to the point of giving them seizures and exposing them to dangerous chemicals? Just a small sacrifice to push us all into the future
Hanging out with Ghislaine/Epstein? Whatever, all the famous people did
SA of a flight attendant? No big deal, she’s probably lying for attention
Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don’t know what happened behind closed doors
Being hilariously bad at Path of Exile 2? Ok now that’s a step too far.
What’s the Futurama bit where a man creates a robot to do his job, love his wife and raise his kid? And when his robot gets the award for lifetime achievement and his son starts calling the robot dad, he has the robot experience his feelings of tragic irony for him?
That, except Elon can’t program a robot if his life depended on it.
my guess is, in his mind, being great at vibeo gamez is part of his self-styled mythos. he can’t allow himself to be perceived as normal at any of the “big brain” stuff, because it would jeopardize belief in his meritocratic rise.
he’s got to be preternaturally epic at everything regarded as important by his tech douche mileu. reading, math, physics, code, gamering, sexual conquest/relationships, reproduction, operational management, etc etc.
the whole “real life Tony Stark” thing is crazy instructive about his psyche. a lot of naive people bought that manufactured narrative and are pretty shocked to uncover how bullshit it is.
He’s propped up heavily by an implicit belief in the great man theory. That and he’s probably a narcissist and has a huge ego as the result of growing up so privileged and being surrounded by sycophants so he can never show humility except in a bragging sort of way
Not to be a vulgar materialist about it, but cultivating this super genius inventor image also makes him a lot of money. The brand and the stock price of his companies are tied directly to how much people believe he’s directly involved in running them, and how much people think he’s “actually super smart you guys, I swear he’s like Tony Stark but irl”.
If people dunk on Elon for being a reactionary asshole with shit opinions, it barely affects the market. If Elon is somewhat outed not to be the savant he claims to be, the companies he has tied to his myth would suffer for it.
God I hope to live to see the day where Elon’s entire house of cards collapses. I want to see the tantrum that he throws when his piece of shit car company deflates and takes down half of the investment funds in America and Europe.
I’m convinced at this point that Tesla’s inflated stock price must be the result of a generation of failsons who don’t invest based on fundamentals and find real estate and other safe investments as too boring
People have done this for decades at this point. I remember reading news about gamers paying peanuts to people in the global south to level up their WoW characters.
i had a friend in high school who would set his alarm during the summer so he’d be up in time to grind the ladder for Diablo (can’t remember which one bc i’m not a gamer.)
Probably Diablo 2 because that’s when ladder got really competitive. You could make serious bank if you found some of the first high runes after a fresh reset. We’re talking like $300 on E-Bay for a Jah or Ber if found within the first four hours. That price plummets down to less than $1 by the end of the week.
This is mainly due to dupers being able to make their money back the sooner they get their hands on certain things.
I don’t know the first thing about D4, but his PoE2 build is very solid, more or less the strongest build that all the meta andies are playing. Probably bc the dudes he paid to play for him know what they’re doing.
Tesla raised $7 billion from investors in 2019 on the premise of having “one million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020”, this also pushed up their stock price. Of course, there were no robotaxis. And the Tesla stock price is even higher than it was when the robotaxis were promised.
Instead, Elon cultists are upset at Elon for lying about gaming. I guess they figured that the robotaxis and other lies are a scam that is in their favor, while Elon being good at gaming isn’t a scam in their favor?
The problem is a ton of people aren’t ever exposed to that kind of news in the first place. Like yeah, we’re all abundantly aware of the seemingly endless ways Musk is a piece of shit, but that’s because we’re all terminally online leftists who care enough to find a random Twitter thread linking a small journal post detailing how he used Boring to mulch orphans or whatever while the media that 99% of the population is exposed to will never once even hint at it.
Abusing his workers to the point of giving them seizures and exposing them to dangerous chemicals? Just a small sacrifice to push us all into the future
Hanging out with Ghislaine/Epstein? Whatever, all the famous people did
SA of a flight attendant? No big deal, she’s probably lying for attention
Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don’t know what happened behind closed doors
Being hilariously bad at Path of Exile 2? Ok now that’s a step too far.
These are the people who lose their shit because someone gets boosted for WoW PvP.
I’ve seen the wars they’ll start. There’s no more serious offense than being bad at video game.
It is kinda weird though that he hires people to do his leisure too. Isn’t the whole point of being that rich to waste your life fucking around?
What’s the Futurama bit where a man creates a robot to do his job, love his wife and raise his kid? And when his robot gets the award for lifetime achievement and his son starts calling the robot dad, he has the robot experience his feelings of tragic irony for him?
That, except Elon can’t program a robot if his life depended on it.
my guess is, in his mind, being great at vibeo gamez is part of his self-styled mythos. he can’t allow himself to be perceived as normal at any of the “big brain” stuff, because it would jeopardize belief in his meritocratic rise.
he’s got to be preternaturally epic at everything regarded as important by his tech douche mileu. reading, math, physics, code, gamering, sexual conquest/relationships, reproduction, operational management, etc etc.
the whole “real life Tony Stark” thing is crazy instructive about his psyche. a lot of naive people bought that manufactured narrative and are pretty shocked to uncover how bullshit it is.
no danger in that ever happening!
He’s propped up heavily by an implicit belief in the great man theory. That and he’s probably a narcissist and has a huge ego as the result of growing up so privileged and being surrounded by sycophants so he can never show humility except in a bragging sort of way
Not to be a vulgar materialist about it, but cultivating this super genius inventor image also makes him a lot of money. The brand and the stock price of his companies are tied directly to how much people believe he’s directly involved in running them, and how much people think he’s “actually super smart you guys, I swear he’s like Tony Stark but irl”.
If people dunk on Elon for being a reactionary asshole with shit opinions, it barely affects the market. If Elon is somewhat outed not to be the savant he claims to be, the companies he has tied to his myth would suffer for it.
God I hope to live to see the day where Elon’s entire house of cards collapses. I want to see the tantrum that he throws when his piece of shit car company deflates and takes down half of the investment funds in America and Europe.
I’m convinced at this point that Tesla’s inflated stock price must be the result of a generation of failsons who don’t invest based on fundamentals and find real estate and other safe investments as too boring
Well, this just confirms my theory that some games are just another job now
He’s outsourcing
People have done this for decades at this point. I remember reading news about gamers paying peanuts to people in the global south to level up their WoW characters.
Yep
Outsourcing
i had a friend in high school who would set his alarm during the summer so he’d be up in time to grind the ladder for Diablo (can’t remember which one bc i’m not a gamer.)
Probably Diablo 2 because that’s when ladder got really competitive. You could make serious bank if you found some of the first high runes after a fresh reset. We’re talking like $300 on E-Bay for a Jah or Ber if found within the first four hours. That price plummets down to less than $1 by the end of the week.
This is mainly due to dupers being able to make their money back the sooner they get their hands on certain things.
I don’t think he was making bank though I think he was just doing it for the love of the game!
to be fair, most elon fans think think this is cool and fine.
Bro his diablo 4 build was 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
I don’t know the first thing about D4, but his PoE2 build is very solid, more or less the strongest build that all the meta andies are playing. Probably bc the dudes he paid to play for him know what they’re doing.
Tesla raised $7 billion from investors in 2019 on the premise of having “one million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020”, this also pushed up their stock price. Of course, there were no robotaxis. And the Tesla stock price is even higher than it was when the robotaxis were promised.
Instead, Elon cultists are upset at Elon for lying about gaming. I guess they figured that the robotaxis and other lies are a scam that is in their favor, while Elon being good at gaming isn’t a scam in their favor?
The problem is a ton of people aren’t ever exposed to that kind of news in the first place. Like yeah, we’re all abundantly aware of the seemingly endless ways Musk is a piece of shit, but that’s because we’re all terminally online leftists who care enough to find a random Twitter thread linking a small journal post detailing how he used Boring to mulch orphans or whatever while the media that 99% of the population is exposed to will never once even hint at it.