I'm fascinated by Elon Musk spending his time on Twitter defending his life to random socialists. I'm grateful for the insight into his psychological insecurities that he volunteers to us. If I were him, I'd admit that I lead a charmed life and try to have some noblesse oblige.
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Thinking about the story of teenage Elon Musk and his brother selling two of their father's emeralds (from his half share in an emerald mine in Zambia) to Tiffany for some walking-around money and my God, he's Richie Rich for real. He even looks like him.https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-sells-the-family-emeralds-in-new-york-2018-2 …
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That is literally a plot from a Richie Rich comic book. There's an awesome Tumblr with a Marxist analysis of the Richie Rich universe that's pretty hilarious.
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The problem for Elon Musk is that he knows that he lives in a universe where there are poor & suffering people in the world whom society has literally thrown away, because corporate America hasn't figured out how to monetize their labor effectively enough for food, housing, etc..
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That's what needs to be solved, and it can't be solved by one billionaire's personal whims. Fixing the safety net takes big government programs. Richie Rich is wealthy in a cartoon universe where nobody suffers, something Elon Musk stans will argue ad nauseum is true IRL as well.
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But it's not true IRL. Possessing billions of dollars in wealth and not using it up, Bill Gates-style, as penance and voluntary tithing (Muslims would call it zakat) of one's wealth to serve humanity, out of gratitude for the good fortune to be given far more than one can spend…
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…is an attitude that I don't quite understand. It takes so little to set up a foundation to park your excess wealth. It's a great way to not pay taxes on it, while doing some good. Eric Schmidt has a foundation to give money away to environmental causes. http://tsffoundation.org/
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And Eric Schmidt always struck me as a fundamentally selfish person, as did Larry Page & Sergey Brin. I know I'm in the minority opinion for thinking so negatively of Google's founders & long-time CEO, but I saw them up close and I was not impressed by their levels of empathy.
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So even a group of stereotypical antisocial nerd billionaires knows that charitable foundations are a great way to park your ill-gotten loot. Or do you all think Larry & Sergey actually wrote Google? Far from it: Larry's original Java crawler was too buggy & had to be rewritten.
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Elon Musk is slightly odd, but he seems likable enough. I don't begrudge him his wealth, but he's obviously defensive about it. I'm fascinated that "Silicon Valley values", for lack of a better phrase, seem to make people less likable due to condescension and suspicion of others.
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Really? He seems really gross and self obsessed...
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