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Electronics whiz Elon Musk is now the world's richest person

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wraper:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on January 09, 2021, 02:11:33 am ---I won't dip my toe in the apartheid denial, but your other fact appears to be in error:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-net-worth-2017-10#four-years-later-in-1999-they-sold-zip2-for-307-million-earning-musk-22-million-he-invested-more-than-half-of-his-earnings-to-cofound-xcom-an-online-banking-service-9

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What fact? His first business was Zip2 which started from nothing. And I do not deny apartheid. What I say is that cure turned out to be worse than illness.

--- Quote ---There's also the story of selling emeralds in New York City, not exactly an ordinary teenager's experience.  And his family owning substantial stock in an emerald mine, at that point in history makes it rather hard to separate from the institution in question.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211054942192119808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1211054942192119808%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidehook.com%2Farticle%2Fhistory%2Ferrol-musk-elon-father-myths


--- Quote ---He didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt. I couldn’t even afford a 2nd PC at Zip2, so programmed at night & website only worked during day. Where is this bs coming from?
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From your own link:

--- Quote ---Just before his 18th birthday, Musk moved to Canada and worked a series of hard labor jobs, including shoveling grain, cutting logs, and eventually cleaning out the boiler room in a lumber mill for $18 an hour — an impressive wage in 1989.
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coppercone2:
thats a nice little puff piece. learn about motor drives in your dads precision masonry equipment at the emerald factory. adds up for me

take the back breaking jobs in Canada because.. you are used to it from installing old ass 50lb 10kW inverters at the emerald factory. then decide to put a conveyor belt on the road. Make your truck look like.. a nicely cut emerald.

I think it is hard to deny. Everyone kept saying the Tesla truck is a polygon, a glitch car.. but no... its just jewelry for rich guys

Doesn't he do shit studded in diamonds also? The MO leads to a match people. Pretty sure I saw some diamond studded stuff on his website.

Halcyon:
Hardly a whiz kid. Business man? Sure. Whether he is a good one is yet to be seen. The cars his company produces are average at best. However he can prove himself with SpaceX and Starlink.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: blueskull on January 09, 2021, 05:18:15 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 09, 2021, 05:12:47 am ---The cars his company produces are average at best.

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Sales says otherwise. His cars are just like iPhones. Some love them, some hate them, but from an engineering perspective (not scientific exploration, but not penny pinching either), it is the best in terms of balancing between reliable existing technology and innovations on new features that require little to no fundamental research.

In other words, predators of existing technology, explorers of uncharted applications.

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Sales of Tesla is insignificant in Australia (and many other parts of the world). Tesla is facing very stiff competition from "real" car makers in the EV segment. Also, Tesla sells their cars at a loss. They make their money from "green" certificates in the US.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Bud on January 08, 2021, 05:53:18 pm ---Who the hell called that pot smoking head Electronics wiz?

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--- Quote from: VK3DRB on January 08, 2021, 09:59:18 pm ---
Musk being a pot smoker has not affected his ability to become the richest person in the world. Barrack Obama was a pot smoker. And so is Britain's richest entertainer, Paul McCartney.

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For as annoying as Musk is to some people, at least he isn't an annoying, stereotypical pot head: "everyone's down on me, man."

I don't get the contempt he receives for his ability to turn a bit of dough into the loaves and fishes. Envy is dangerous emotion. Jealously is a curse. Both things mis-targeted only lead down a path to self harm.

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