• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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      That’s because he’s not and never was a businessman. He’s a tech guy who got super lucky and became filthy rich. Musk builds and designs shit, he doesn’t know squat about running a company. He should stick to playing with his rockets and making new roadsters. This whole CEO foray has turned out real bad.

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        He’s not even a tech guy. He inherited his money, and then lucked into a couple jobs with actual tech guys that he could take the credit for. His entire career has been built around buying other tech companies that were just taking off, pushing the original founders out, and then taking credit for everything everyone else did.

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          … lucked into a couple jobs …

          Strongarmed his way into other people’s success, then slapped his name on it and claimed it as his own.

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          What’s crazy is that he had fooled a lot of people into thinking he was a tech guy with a very carefully crafted image, but he threw it all away to help the alt right

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      As surprising as it may sound, most billionaires do not arrive there through competence. They get there by way of inheritance and privilege.