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There is no myth. Both Trump and Elon have generational talent in their respective domains. This is the kind of talent that’s so unique, it creates its own doma
by coffeemug 1y ago
There is no myth. Both Trump and Elon have generational talent in their respective domains. This is the kind of talent that’s so unique, it creates its own domain that didn’t exist before, and that no one will be able to replicate after.
But they’re both unstable, and have many other negative features.
One can have an extraordinary talent in starting generational companies, and have a social media addiction (among possibly other addictions and problems) that makes one unstable. These aren’t mutually exclusive.
- CamperBob2 1y agoOne of their fathers was a successful slumlord, and the other owned an emerald mine in South Africa. Those provide a one-time advantage (which in Trump's case would have been more profitable if he had socked it away in an index fund.) How do they establish 'generational talent' for being POTUS or building rockets and cars? It will be interesting to see if any of Elon's offspring choose to follow in his footsteps. Probably not the transgender child he disowned, or the one whose name has to be written with Unicode characters, but that leaves something like 20 others to vie for the throne.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y ago> One can have an extraordinary talent in starting generational companies I though Musk was just adept at buying certain companies
- cosmicgadget 1y agoMaybe he is talking about Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump U, Trump Airlines...
- sidibe 1y agoThe only talents they are great at are grift and daring someone to enforce rules against them in a society that largely relies on people holding themselves to standards and risk avoidance instead of active enforcement.
- candiddevmike 1y ago> Both Trump and Elon have generational talent in their respective domains That's an interesting way of saying they were born into a wealthy family
- bobsmooth 1y agoI was also born into a wealthy family but I haven't created multiple billion dollar companies.
- anonymousDan 1y agoWell presumably you have some actual morals.
- randomNumber7 1y agoI bet you would have no moral given the opportunity.
- georgemcbay 1y agoThis seems like the sort of projection where someone is inadvertently "telling on themself".
- intermerda 1y agoI bet you have none, opportunity or not.
- anonymousDan 1y agoYou're probably right!
- jiggawatts 1y agoNeither has Trump, so don’t feel bad.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoElon maybe—we’ll see if they outlast him. Trump did not start any generational companies.