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Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 9

Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to sit in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you out and you'll get exposed. That's exactly what happened in the last 3 years with Musk. There's a reason why the saying 'The emperor has no clothes' is so popular, it's because something like this happened thosands of times throughout history. Guy gets incredible and once in a lifetime tailwind, gets a title and sits on it. People from all over the place come to meet the man with the unique title anticipating a world-shattering intellect/charisma or what have you and in the end they realize it was just a guy who had incredible tailwinds after all

rowanG077 3y ago
> Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Are you joking here? None of them are even remotely as successful as Musk. A president is not the founder of a country. It's incomparable. > Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. You forget SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring company, Twitter, Paypal, OpenAI. > Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to get in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you out and you'll get exposed. > That's exactly what happened in the last 3 years with Musk How is he exposed? Some internet haters are talking smack? Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes. If anything this makes the haters look even more irrational. What do you think it takes to create numerous highly successful companies? You don't need to talk to people to do that?
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  > > Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes And by running his wide mouth he has proven the to the world that all of that is in spite of him, not because of him. It's the equivalent of pop-stars trying to write their own songs or improvising on stage. They are nothing without the structure that propelled them forward, similarly Musk is nothing without luck, had he kept his mouth shut he'd have at least managed to fool those who are not familiar with the concept of survivorship bias, and apparently you seem to be one of them. To be clear I believe all the above applies to every billionaire not just Musk.

rowanG077 3y ago

> Reagan, Bush and Trump were even more successful as they were at the helm of a 400M people country with a 20T GDP Are you joking here? None of them are even remotely as successful as Musk. A president is not the founder of a country. It's incomparable. > Tesla is what? A 80,000 people company with 90bn in revenue? Peanuts compared to the United States of America. You forget SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring company, Twitter, Paypal, OpenAI. > Point is you cannot hide behind your title, sooner or later you have to get in a room with other people and you have to speak, and if you say idiotic things people are gonna notice and call you out and you'll get exposed. > That's exactly what happened in the last 3 years with Musk How is he exposed? Some internet haters are talking smack? Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes. If anything this makes the haters look even more irrational. What do you think it takes to create numerous highly successful companies? You don't need to talk to people to do that?

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
> > Musk is swimming in money while his companies are racking up successes And by running his wide mouth he has proven the to the world that all of that is in spite of him, not because of him. It's the equivalent of pop-stars trying to write their own songs or improvising on stage. They are nothing without the structure that propelled them forward, similarly Musk is nothing without luck, had he kept his mouth shut he'd have at least managed to fool those who are not familiar with the concept of survivorship bias, and apparently you seem to be one of them. To be clear I believe all the above applies to every billionaire not just Musk.