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One way to "climb the rungs" is education. This is an article/thread discussing his anti-education take, when he himself (in spite of having a first class educ
by Someone1234 6y ago
One way to "climb the rungs" is education.
This is an article/thread discussing his anti-education take, when he himself (in spite of having a first class education) doesn't feel like he gained from it, and suggesting others don't either (or even that education is harmful).
His wealth and privilege is absolutely topical because he was able to bypass certain checks due to his family is.
- the_only_law 6y agoI recall something about a degree not being a requirement to be hired by Tesla, but I’m assuming anytime this sort of headline makes the news (supposedly the federal government did something similar recently) they almost exclusively mean “for software developers”. I would be incredibly shocked if Musk was hiring self taught, say... material engineers or any other “traditional” engineer. I’m not really a fan of credentialism, especially when it can be expensive and painful as hell to obtain them, but I don’t put much stock into most “anti education” type stuff.
- rwmurrayVT 6y agoSelf-taught engineers of the old fashioned sort typically is a fancy way of saying really good with CAD & some intuition about what will fall apart. Credentials are more important for design engineers compared to software engineers.
- raidenmechai 6y agoelon grew up not rich at all and his mother and his father had an abusive relationship, difference is elon at 13 sold a video game(https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/ https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/) to get pubished by atari...at 13. with a mediocre education, you aint competing with that.