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<div dir="ltr">What I want to know is where are the Elon Musk
copycats hiding? I can't walk down the street without bumping
into at least one idiot who wants to be the next Donald Trump.
Shoot an african american, abuse an immigrant, or beat a woman
to death, and there's a line of people out the door who want a
piece of that action. Why can't we all just build space ships,
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<p>Bezos and Branson are somewhat "weak" copycats, not that billions
of dollars suggests "weakness" in all domains.</p>
<p>Being a bully (re Trump) is a lot easier than knuckling down and
doing the wide range of "hard work" implied my Elon Musk's
success(es). I don't know quite what his composition is... he
seems like more of a superb conductor and perhaps composer than
anything. He obviously isn't working out all the details in each
of these areas, he simply has the vision that "they *should* come
to be" and somewhere back down the line (iteratively) he applied a
certain kind of gumption to get from Step A to Step B to ... Step
triple-Zed. Leveraging or "Chimneying" up the cracks in the
technical/business landscape to amass enough wealth (Is $1M enough
to launch these kinds of efforts? $1B? $10B?) <br>
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<p>We had a vFriam discussion a while back that generally suggested
that $Billonaires are by definition A$$holes, because (my twist)
they control thousands of lives with that wealth, and that kind of
power over others can never be "clean".</p>
<p>And yet we applaud Tony $tark <ahem Elon Mu$k) while being
sure that Donald Chump is (much) worse for whatever wealth he
actually held before becoming the Oligarch in Chief. And look
askance at Bezos and Gates and all of that Ilk. I have known
several people who were in Steve Jobs' inner circle, at least for
a while, and they all agreed that being an A$$hole helped him get
rich and being rich helped him be a bigger A$$hole, yet the style
and competence he brought to the role made him semi-forgiveable?</p>
<p>It's tricky, no?</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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