Thursday, March 20, 2025

How Not to Be an Idiot: Lessons from Elon Musk (Richard Carrier)

Elon Musk is an idiot. He has never accomplished anything by himself in his life and has no remarkable competencies. He could be the most incompetent person on the planet. Like most rich people, he’s just lucky. And Luck Matters More Than Talent. He fell ass-backwards into big money, and our system protects big money. So it is impossible to have big money and not eternally gain more, no matter how stupid you are. Example: Donald Trump.

Musk, like Trump, hires people to do or invent things for him, and then takes credit when they succeed—or blames them when they fail (and they fail a lot more than you might have thought). And then he hoards all the profits. He did not invent Tesla. He just bought the company. He did not invent new rockets. He paid people to. He did not master a video game. He paid people to do it for him and then pretended he did it himself. And he did not invent PayPal. Someone else did; he just worked there (and if you thought otherwise, you were duped by his grift—congratulations!)...


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