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I think intention matters here. It’s great for those people who are helped by Mr. Beast, but it’s coming from a place of ego and profit, not charity. Happy for

I think intention matters here. It’s great for those people who are helped by Mr. Beast, but it’s coming from a place of ego and profit, not charity. Happy for those helped, but it’s still a little unseemly. However, I do think Musk genuinely likes to help people^ (e.g. Puerto Rico and Ukraine), but also I feel his response to the (valid) rejection of his help by the divers in Thailand was ungracious and maybe a little telling. Hopefully he’s grown since then ^ also it’s good PR

webninja 2y ago
The nice thing about being a billionaire is that you can finally care about other things besides making more money. For a period of time, Musk was the richest man in the world. When they drop to second place or below, they have a tradition of saying “Thank you” to the person that surpassed them.
- h0l0cube 2y ago
  Where else was my comment posted? It's strange that it's still getting replies and likes. > you can finally care about other things besides making more money I think his 'philanthropic' efforts pre-date the point where he was the richest man in the world. But tbf, his philanthropy was always tied to promotion of his various enterprises (e.g., deploying free batteries, solar, satellite internet), so it can't be entirely disentangled from his business interests. In the counterfactual where he just had the shirt on his back, figuratively speaking, he wouldn't give it up for someone more in need. By my measure, he isn't a giving person, but he's always on the search for win-wins. i.e., how can I help people, and grow my business, and build cool shit. Building cool shit is his core drive, and everything else is incidental. Which kind of explains bad business decisions like buying Twitter. Though he hasn't really done anything 'cool' with that – it's more just his curious plaything.
qsdf38100 2y ago
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- ClownsAbound 2y ago
  Or put another way Musk is anti censorship, anti war in Ukraine, anti complying with the Harris/Biden agenda to deplatform political rivals such as they did 4 days after Biden took office, forcing Pre Musk Twitter/X and Facebook to do their bidding - or else. Turns out the ones squawking loudest about the other being a threat to democracy are in fact the ones actively working against our Constitutional Rights. And I’m a lifelong Democrat who changed to Indy and won’t support these clowns going forward. Wake up before the US is just like the UK and the police are at your door because of a post they disagree with - fuck the first amendment, right? Just like Harris and Walz just said, the first amendment doesn’t protect misinformation or hate speech… actually; it 100% does but the boomer news is gonna try to make us all believe more of their lies.
  - midnightnoon 2y ago
    I can't agree more, I'm a black lifelong Democrat and I'm fed up with their lies. Nowadays I only get my information from Truth Social and I finally realized how evil Democrats are.
  - qsdf38100 2y ago
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    - ripjaygn 2y ago
      I've been a lifelong liberal and won't vote Democrat after seeing how SpaceX and Tesla are being treated by the liberal media, including the publishing of outright fake news by so called reputable outlets. I don't support Trump or Putin or dictators in general. If I vote Republican at some point it'd be an anti-Democrat vote.
      - h0l0cube 2y ago
        Democrats aren’t the liberal media, and the current Democratic controlled government also happen to be subsidizing both SpaceX and Tesla

webninja 2y ago

The nice thing about being a billionaire is that you can finally care about other things besides making more money. For a period of time, Musk was the richest man in the world. When they drop to second place or below, they have a tradition of saying “Thank you” to the person that surpassed them.

h0l0cube 2y ago
Where else was my comment posted? It's strange that it's still getting replies and likes. > you can finally care about other things besides making more money I think his 'philanthropic' efforts pre-date the point where he was the richest man in the world. But tbf, his philanthropy was always tied to promotion of his various enterprises (e.g., deploying free batteries, solar, satellite internet), so it can't be entirely disentangled from his business interests. In the counterfactual where he just had the shirt on his back, figuratively speaking, he wouldn't give it up for someone more in need. By my measure, he isn't a giving person, but he's always on the search for win-wins. i.e., how can I help people, and grow my business, and build cool shit. Building cool shit is his core drive, and everything else is incidental. Which kind of explains bad business decisions like buying Twitter. Though he hasn't really done anything 'cool' with that – it's more just his curious plaything.

qsdf38100 2y ago

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ClownsAbound 2y ago
Or put another way Musk is anti censorship, anti war in Ukraine, anti complying with the Harris/Biden agenda to deplatform political rivals such as they did 4 days after Biden took office, forcing Pre Musk Twitter/X and Facebook to do their bidding - or else. Turns out the ones squawking loudest about the other being a threat to democracy are in fact the ones actively working against our Constitutional Rights. And I’m a lifelong Democrat who changed to Indy and won’t support these clowns going forward. Wake up before the US is just like the UK and the police are at your door because of a post they disagree with - fuck the first amendment, right? Just like Harris and Walz just said, the first amendment doesn’t protect misinformation or hate speech… actually; it 100% does but the boomer news is gonna try to make us all believe more of their lies.
- midnightnoon 2y ago
  I can't agree more, I'm a black lifelong Democrat and I'm fed up with their lies. Nowadays I only get my information from Truth Social and I finally realized how evil Democrats are.
- qsdf38100 2y ago
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  - ripjaygn 2y ago
    I've been a lifelong liberal and won't vote Democrat after seeing how SpaceX and Tesla are being treated by the liberal media, including the publishing of outright fake news by so called reputable outlets. I don't support Trump or Putin or dictators in general. If I vote Republican at some point it'd be an anti-Democrat vote.
    - h0l0cube 2y ago
      Democrats aren’t the liberal media, and the current Democratic controlled government also happen to be subsidizing both SpaceX and Tesla