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[โ€“] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The guy has all the money in the world. He can buy a big island, be happy, and be king dipshit of everything he sees. But no, he made a choice to keep being an insufferable nazi asshole to the rest of us instead.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm of the opinion that a lot of people if not most arguably don't really make a choice about who they are. They don't live with intentionality, they don't consider their agency, they just run on autopilot with the baseline personhood they were built with.

    There's a good chance that Elon has never made a real choice in his life. He's probably one of the most pathetic people in the world.

    Not to say that absolves blame, you're absolutely responsible for your own actions and lack of thinking.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm of the opinion that a lot of people if not most arguably don't really make a choice about who they are. They don't live with intentionality, they don't consider their agency, they just run on autopilot with the baseline personhood they were built with.

    I think you are spot-on with this, and that it very much includes many "successful" people who others automatically assume they should try to emulate. It's especially bad here in the US.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    That's one of the things that bothers me with how western values can be in relation to success, there's this idea that a type of personality or attitude will mean success, but there's a lot of times where success just kind of happens, and money in sufficient quantities will reproduce independent of who's holding it, like some kind of virus.

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