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>You should care if you already don’t. He runs some of the most successful businesses and people are in long lines waiting to get hired by his companies despite

>You should care if you already don’t. He runs some of the most successful businesses and people are in long lines waiting to get hired by his companies despite the high workload and below competition (e.g. facebook, google) pay. Except that I really don't care about him though and it works well for me so far. With the risk of getting downvoted, people give him and other tech billionaires far too much importance. My life would be exactly the same without any of his products. I can easily live without PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, while my life (and everyone else here as well) would not be possible without the products from traditional "boring" companies that nobody cares about anymore, like wind and hydro turbines from Siemens and GE, healthcare devices from Philips, Siemens and GE, semiconductors, jet engines, planes, trains, etc.

oxplot 4y ago
I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment. > My life would be exactly the same without any of his products. And what about the lives of people who'll come after you, generations after you? Well he does care. And if you think that he runs his businesses for the money, then you're in for a big surprise when I tell you, there are far far far easier ways to make lots of money with someone of his skills and intelligence, than trying to compete in two industries, one monopolized by a few with a mind shatteringly high barrier to entry, and the other saturated by established players that have optimized their cost over a century and reduced their margins to bare minimum to stay competitive. > while my life (and everyone else here as well) would not be possible without the products from traditional "boring" companies that nobody cares about anymore Wait 50 years. Then Tesla will be traditional, boring and the one that one's life would not be possible without.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment That's the kind of insight that's valuable to a productive debate and sets the right tone for it. /s
  - oxplot 4y ago
    There's nothing to debate, when all you wrote was a list of everything you personally didn't care about. We can talk about facts, effect of things on larger population, etc. I'm not gonna start a debate on you as an individual.
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oxplot 4y ago

I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment. > My life would be exactly the same without any of his products. And what about the lives of people who'll come after you, generations after you? Well he does care. And if you think that he runs his businesses for the money, then you're in for a big surprise when I tell you, there are far far far easier ways to make lots of money with someone of his skills and intelligence, than trying to compete in two industries, one monopolized by a few with a mind shatteringly high barrier to entry, and the other saturated by established players that have optimized their cost over a century and reduced their margins to bare minimum to stay competitive. > while my life (and everyone else here as well) would not be possible without the products from traditional "boring" companies that nobody cares about anymore Wait 50 years. Then Tesla will be traditional, boring and the one that one's life would not be possible without.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment That's the kind of insight that's valuable to a productive debate and sets the right tone for it. /s
- oxplot 4y ago
  There's nothing to debate, when all you wrote was a list of everything you personally didn't care about. We can talk about facts, effect of things on larger population, etc. I'm not gonna start a debate on you as an individual.

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