girlfreddyThe Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
SJ_ZeroThe quote doesn’t show him admitting it, but rather says his biographer said it.
Thunderf00t made many videos about the Hyperloop and while you do need to keep thinking for yourself while watching them because he makes mistakes or interjects conjecture or personal opinion as fact at times, he still does a good job of showing how absurd Hyperloop is on its face.
The so-called “fall of Elon Musk” should be a reminder to everyone so just think for yourselves. I know the TV ended up painting this guy is the second coming of Christ, but you don’t become a multi multibillionaire several times over by just being a good guy. There’s an old saying, you can become a millionaire through honesty, integrity, and hard work, but you can’t become a billionaire.
Also everyone needs to keep in mind that most of his billions came out of your pocket. His companies are based off of massive government subsidies including the hyperloop, and one of the reasons why Tesla’s stock price is so high is just because of government policies that have led to a massive stock market bubble at the expense of the common man. And there’s just so much money sloshing around due to excessive government debt and massive central bank money printing it had to go somewhere, and it ended up going into stocks and other assets making those people rich while inflation adjusted wages have stagnated for decades.
TimeIntegratedThere’s an old saying, you can become a millionaire through honesty, integrity, and hard work, but you can’t become a billionaire.
IMHO the saying is nonsense. Why do we draw the magic line at $999,999,999.99 USD? This there something special about that number?
The saying never says that you can make 999,999,999.99 honestly. It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.
It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.
So what is the amount. How do you justify it - other than “because I said so”?
I really want to hear how people justify why they think Michael Jordan has made his billions unethically.
what is the amount
There is no amount, how could there be? How could anyone place an exact dollar value on something like this?
You can’t make a billion dollars honestly, but the exact amount of money that you can make honestly is unknowable, that’s just not the kind of thing that has a hard value on it.
Matter of fact, i’m not sure if i agree with the original statement anyway, for the same reason: is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement
You can’t make a billion dollars honestly
Again, you have no justification for this assertion.
is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement
Thank you. Exactly my point. Best not to make such statements that you can’t back up and are of questionable soundness.