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This is why so much hate is directed at Elon. His repeated success in different domains causes severe cognitive dissonance. It's an in your face painful reminde
by memish 4y ago
This is why so much hate is directed at Elon. His repeated success in different domains causes severe cognitive dissonance. It's an in your face painful reminder that success isn't entirely due to luck.
It's a lot easier to dismiss someone's success when it only happens once.
- ilyt 4y agoMore like bewilderment on how many times someone can not deliver on promise yet still get people throwing money at them
- memish 4y agoMillions of electric cars, thousands of charging stations, thousands of powerwalls, thousands of Starlink satellites and re-usable rockets weren't delivered? No one delivers 100%, but that's a historically exceptional track record.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoElon predicted in 2013 that Tesla would be shipping 500,000 cars a year by 2020. That was a crazy insane prediction that he delivered on, among many other similar predictions. Nobody expects all predictions to come true -- professional futurists have a batting rate of about 10%.
- ilyt 4y agoI'm talking about stuff people preordered and still didn't got, not on his predictions.
- cercatrova 4y agoMaybe people should stop preordering then. It's a dumb practice anyway, in any field, not just Teslas.
- _hypx 4y agoMusk failed at countless things. It's pure delusion to think that he has "repeated success in different domains."