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The level of hero worship on this site is bizarre, not even for someone for their technical acumen, but just because they are a figure in the broader culture. I
by noobermin 5y ago
The level of hero worship on this site is bizarre, not even for someone for their technical acumen, but just because they are a figure in the broader culture. It's really disappointing, actually.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI don't hate the guy, but I am slightly disappointed that this is the best we can get for a real world imitation of Tony Stark.
- nh23423fefe 5y agoWord salad.
- samstave 5y agoWe have both ends of the extremes of "wanting to seem like Stark, but not quite making the cut" ; We have Gates, who is seemingly using his philanthropic money shenanigans disguised as for the public good, while ensuring every single move is 100% profit driven only... and winding up an evil figure from such We have Musk's fanciful and awe inspiring feats of enterprise and business acumen, and the glowing admiration from imaginations of our future futurists... Yet, both cut from the same cloth, just orthogonal threads.
- ironmagma 5y agoI always found Stark to be a brash, unlikable character. We have enough of those in the world already.
- user_7832 5y ago(Slightly controversial opinion for this thread) Stark is an a*hole. Folk(s) imitating him (or imitated by him) ironically don't realize it.
- ironmagma 5y agoWell, as the parent commenter noted, Stark and Musk aren't sufficiently similar to be indistinguishable. Even if Stark was modeled after Musk... one of the latter's key elements is that he is quite charismatic and likable.
- robonerd 5y agoI don't think there is much sense in wishing real life were more like comic books.
- slkdk32 5y ago
- Avicebron 5y agoHe may have been the leader of the people who made that spaceship and car, but he didn't do it in his garage, he leveraged a previously vast amount of money into getting other people to do those things for him, don't belittle, it's unbecoming.
- ironmagma 5y ago> he didn't do it in his garage No one ever has. You're setting up an unclearable hurdle; it's understood when someone says "he created the largest software company ever," they don't mean that Bill Gates created Windows, Word, Outlook, and Powerpoint singlehandedly. The way you do these things is with money. The fact money was used doesn't make it less impressive.
- ironmagma 5y agoPeople often say this, and it's frequently based on a false assumption that people don't like Elon for valid reasons. Who told you I don't respect him for his technical acumen?
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