Charlie StrossNov 14, 2024
The problem is the folks in clown shoes set a climate that attracts competent but evil shitbags, eg. the way Himmler (a jumped-up chicken farmer) ended up with henchmen like Heydrich and Eichmann.
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Show threadCharlie StrossNov 14, 2024
@SvenGeier If you want a contemporary example, just consider the wild success of SpaceX *DESPITE* Elon Musk, which is largely attributable to COO and President Gwynne Shotwell. Now imagine the unambiguously evil equivalent ...
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@cstross @SvenGeier I’m not a Musk fanboy (not by a longshot) but for whatever reason he did manage to make both Tesla and SpaceX into multi-billion dollar businesses which completely transformed their industries.

This required more than just luck.

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@smh2 @cstross @SvenGeier
Force of will. Notable.
It isn't the same as competence.
Nobody was I think really trying to stop him.
(Compete, yes, stop, destroy, no)
He was involved in establishing two transportation systems - generating devices, fueling them, maintaining (reusing!) them.

If he brought anything to anything in government, he might drive a department of transport.

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