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You're preaching to people who either don't understand what you're saying, or don't want to believe what you're saying.
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
You're preaching to people who either don't understand what you're saying, or don't want to believe what you're saying.
- pj_mukh 10y agoOr don't want to live sad cynical lives. P.S: I understand it is a balance but Musk has done nothing to warrant this derision...yet.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoThere is a vast middle ground between cynicism, and giving a successful billionaire the benefit of the doubt on the pseudo-philosophy he spouts.
- x2398dh1 10y agoOr perhaps you could say, the religio-corporation he has created...but instead of selling jewelry in the midwest through multi-level marketing and talking about how great Jesus is, he's talking about how tech will create a utopia and doing it in Silicon Valley.
- sametmax 10y agoWell, what he gave is an opinion. And a possibility. But there is no proof of it. So far Musk has not been on any major scandal, nor has he been caugh to financial fraud, talking giant lies, etc. So on the scale of billionaires, he is currently in the top 25 percentile. And because what he does capture the imagination, people want to believe he is just building stuff out of passion. And that's another opinion. And a possibility. From now, either you prove it, or you believe. And I guess most of us just believe.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI think you're missing one thing, which is that history has a lot to teach us about the kind of people who seek this level of success, achieve it, and are capable of risking so much to do so. People who thrive where Musk is, but again, it's still a matter of belief and not proof. A lot of life is, until it's too late and we're speaking in terms of hindsight. If you want to believe in something, at least believe in something that's likely to be true.