This might not be popular here but does anyone else dislike Elon Musk? All the fact free covid tantrums, idiotic humor, treatment of his workers, reports by ex wives, and seriously its enough with doge coin already. Why is it so fun for him to whip up a frenzy and get so many poor and working class folks to buy it?
He’s digging himself and his companies into a bigger and bigger hole the more solely responsible for this mania he becomes, and it seems publicly like all he cares about.
I love how he bashed Newsom and California - rightfully so.
I disagree SM1
Dallas is the finance/banking hub of the south. Business and jobs are booming here.
Austin is the tech hub of the south. Everyone wants to move to Austin and find jobs. I mean TESLA, Samsung, Oracle have moved there this year alone.
Houston is oil/energy
I don’t think it’s just oil. For reference Houston is probably the worst of the 3 major Texas cities in terms of desirability.
This man is building rockets for interstellar space travel. You are living in an age where you get to witness a genius turn imagination into reality. Don’t be a hater.
It’s possible. But I don’t agree with your dislike for him. Because what he has done has tremendously outweighed any negative connotations associated with him. But just my 2cents
Stop consulting and go invent something. Make it into a global billion dollar business. Create a brand new industry out of it.
He’s done that 3 times. You have done what? I’ll take more Elon’s in the world than you. The world would be a better place if that was the case.
Not everyone is a nice square. Get over it.
You’re right - i don’t like what he does. I don’t much like the kardashians either - but that’s your comparison, not mine.
Wanted to see if folks felt similarly - seems some do and some don’t which is to be expected.
Oh my god you say one thing about COVID not being the end of the world and you’re evil nowadays.
He’s got dad humor lol
Perhaps, spend more time talking to your friends and family and less time on FB ranting?
It is rare to find a savant you'd want as your best friend, but I am still inspired by his work and mystified how another human brain can be exponentially more switched on than mine.
He's performing better at being a billionaire than I would.
I think he's great. A modern day Renaissance man whose name will be remembered alongside Leonardo DaVinci.
Someone missed out on doge…..
Agreed. People don’t call his old group of a colleagues the mafia because they are upstanding people.
He just sits at an intersection of technology, popular media, and celebrity which few other people occupy. And the finance world hasn’t been friendly with him, so he has the underdog story going as well.
Yup. Huge fan of Tesla, but not of Elon
Exact opposite feel for me. HATE EVs (enthusiast here) but love Elon.
I dislike Elon, his personality is grating amd I am not part of his cult. But one cant deny the vision that got him where he is at. Plenty of people have all the advamtages he did starting but end up being run of the mill.
He has all of the advsntages and actually used them.
Serious trump vibes from him except you can’t criticize him because he’s a genius and he’s doing so much good for the world. Except I wouldn’t be totally surprised if more eventually comes out about the kind of person he is and what his actual contributions are to his companies.
It's the same old billionaire story of inherited wealth, connections, other people's ideas and market manipulation.
Musk's version has more outdated memes and a retinue of mostly male online weirdos defending him (see above).
Is there actually anyone who likes him? Lol
I respect him for his mind and his accomplishments. But like him? No. Why?
He’s like several of my brilliant friends. I admire his abilities, think some of the stuff he does like his first principles approach to be brilliant (in part for the simplicity of it), and he has a track record that’s hard to argue with. That said not sure I’d invite him for family Christmas although somehow I think hanging out with him would be a rush and an awesome experience. I rarely get to truly just think anymore.
Lot of respect and like his willingness to be real.
He reminds me of some villain from an action movie that tries to take control of the world. I won't be surprised if he is training a secret army of aliens or something like that. This dude is dangerous
He likes the Bond villain comparison. It’s been made before.
Absolutely. Can't stand him. A lot of brilliant inventors were a-holes or nuts, but Newton didn't get invited on SNL or to Joe Rogan...
Howard Hughes was a brilliant person, and see where that ended up.
Can’t stand the effer
Reiterating a couple weeks later. This guy sucks. Fanboys will come to see it when they’re not blinded by his stock or crypto manipulation.
Lol i read this as “i made money on Tesla or doge in the last fifteen months.” Getting stock doesn’t equate to being well comped - it just happened to skyrocket last year for a long list of reasons that don’t have a ton to do with its actual business.
But more to the point why don’t you look up his Union busting, or forcing factory workers to come in during Covid and how many of them got it, or what Justine musk or other women have actually written? Take a look at how he’s gleefully toying with markets on a daily basis. People are responsible for their own decisions but people with platforms also have a responsibility. You can absolutely blame the ring leader for a crazed mob out there in the markets.
Or you know, you can just assume all the things you assume in your post.
In his own words “I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars on a rocket ship, did you really think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?”
SNLs’ writers words