Musk has already achieved more than Gates and Jobs combined

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  1. 101101

    101101 Well-Known Member

    If Gates hadn't helped with the personal computer revolution there still would have been Jobs and if not either of them then maybe Torvalds or people who did game consoles. And if Jobs hadn't blended the internet with a palm based touch screen interface and phone service someone else would have. Jobs does deserve credit for capping his personal wealth and working for $1 a year after that and for telling share holders to piss off and refusing a dividend permanently.

    But what Musk has done I think will be recognized as greater already at least by history and by those aware of what's going on today. Also, consider the Tesla critics. They are defined by two characteristics. One is they are dumb in a Darwin Award bet against their own survival kind of way- also a bit like short horizon no delayed gratification types. They are also dishonest and unethical but protective about these traits. They cannot tell the truth it seems and seem to think it is only unjust when injustice fails, they literally root for injustice and oppressors, they're almost like morbid ambulance chasers.

    Think of it, the average Camry will exhaust a lagoon of gasoline over it combustion life cycle, and it wasn't green in its making either. And yet Gates is skeptical on electric trucks apparently because despite his rhetoric he is actually skeptical about or opposed to leaving petrol. Consider for instance his circular logic on divestment, he says only a hand full of people own the equity in petrol and they will be needed for the solution so don't sour them through divestment. In effect, he is saying not to ask the petrol monopolists to move away from their monopoly. Unlike Musk he is against basic income, he stupidly asks how we could afford one. I don't know, maybe the people who do all the work will ask themselves how they can afford to continue to support unearned income welfare billionaires like Gates and as a result have a means of affording it? Maybe most people were having their money wasted on people like Gates and as a result chasing their tails spending their time being told what to do for money when they could have easily have afforded a basic income for themselves and their families. Musk just supporting a BI makes him more constructive and valuable to society than Gates.

    Perhaps you'll say what about Gates' and his foundation's work supporting vaccines. In response I'd say take a look at Japan, they have the the best health outcomes in the world, far better than the US and while they were at one point the most aggressive in using vaccines they have since abandoned vaccines over safety and efficacy concerns. The EU is also much less enthusiastic. To a large extent the US was alone among the developed world with lead in the gasoline and the brain damaging effect that stunted whole generations and made them more violent. I'd say vaccines are the new lead in the new dumbing down lead in the gasoline and it is not surprising given Gates' elitist record that he wants to spend money on the problematic technology.

    Gates also tries to say we can't do big projects without huge concentrations of private wealth. This simply isn't true the US did a lot more with a lot less of that in the past.
     
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