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newsbinator | 8 months ago

> Elon is not a generous guy

Why would he be?

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notsosureja1|8 months ago

Because it feels warm and fuzzy to be kind and empathic. Being hateful and greedy and letting avarice rule over your worldview is incredibly sad. But who am I to say.

ivape|8 months ago

It's kind of a "life arc" that gets fulfilled when you've done it all and have all the money in the world, and reach a certain age. It's a very traditional arc for a humane human being.

thomasanders0n|8 months ago

He still has a couple decades to go with his companies I would say.

qeternity|8 months ago

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reaperducer|8 months ago

> Elon is not a generous guy

Why would he be?

Why shouldn't he be?

He has 10x more of everything in the world than he could ever possibly use in his lifetime.

Greed is not a virtue.

djaychela|8 months ago

> He has 10x more of everything in the world than he could ever possibly use in his lifetime.

Your multiplier is miles off. Not only on basic maths but because he has no idea what to do with all of his wealth other than accrue more and try to prove he's still not the unlikeable teenager he was in SA.

Without a rounding error on his wealth he could fix world wide problems such as clean drinking water for everyone. Instead he follows his self-made "I'm a genius" agenda.

I know there will be no actual day of reckoning for him, but if there were he would have a lot of difficult questions and no decent answers.

MarcelOlsz|8 months ago

My uncle has 10x more of everything in the world than he could ever possibly use in his lifetime. A lake house, a main house, a few boats and cars.

Elon is somewhere around 10,000x.

threetonesun|8 months ago

When twitter became x they switched to basically the same limits Instagram has, I don't think this is a particular failing of Elons, even though he might have many.

Restricting content from AI is the big messy debate we're going to see over and over for the next who knows how many years.

foobarchu|8 months ago

Maybe something to do with having built his fortune off the back of taxpayer subsidies?