He’s an idiot whose only skill is using his frankly disgusting access to money and power to steal ideas from actual geniuses and calling them his own.

When he first became famous, I thought he might be smart. Then he started talking about things in my field of expertise and I realised he had no idea what he was talking about. Since then, I’ve heard engineers and designers in other fields say the same thing.

I’m actually angry he gets away with this. I’ve struggled to make ends meet, and I have high level skills – it’s infuriating that a moron can make bank in my field by pretending and being a fucking sociopath.

e: my passion overrides my ability to spell

I'm 100% certain Musk has been buying guerilla social media campaigns since at least the early 2010s.

Nobody gave a shit about some random CEO back then. But in certain spaces like reddit, he was talked of like a god.

This is memoryholed but at one point the mods of /r/technology put filters against the flood of Musk spam. When this was revealed, there was a minor brigading of pro Musk content to that subreddit. It's another in the long history of reddit incidents but nobody seems to remember this one.

That's when I clued into the patterns of this artificially generated Musk popularity. Why the hell did anyone care about this guy back then? It obviously wasn't organic content. The guy manufactured himself.

I remember watching the Tesla and SpaceX live streams over the years because of all the hullaballoo. Nobody else watched those. Nobody else cared. I watched and saw nothing special. He's nothing but another bumbling CEO. Most the time he'd try to sound smart and get smacked down by the actual scientists and engineers from the company who were on the panel.

There's another guy right now. Jeff Arcuri or whatever. He's on r/all every single day for the past several years. Who the fuck is Jeff Arcuri, you ask??? Some random comedian. But he's obviously been buying himself a top spot on reddit. Based on that kind of presence you'd think he's one of the most legendary comedians in history. Guy isn't even notable enough to have a Wikipedia page.

Elon Musk is a moron’s hallucination of a genius.

They did the same with Jobs. We value success not intelligence. It just happens success favors sociopathic behaviors as they will do anything to achieve it. They don't have empathy for those they hurt on the way up.

More failed launches in 2020s than the earliest space programs of the 60s, where they had pencils. Finally he gave up on Mars...now it's the moon....soon Nebraska.

Angela Collier had a fantastic video on how all these rich people think having money means they are experts in everything.

If Elizabeth Holmes got out of prison, and said she spent her time coming up with an entirely new technology to save the world, the media would cover it enthusiastically, and VCs would throw millions at her.

This guy is such a stupid fuck.

He also predicted there will be fully self driving cars by the end of 2017

It's annoying that some (software) engineering friends think he's smart. Like, bro. He's not the one building the rockets. He's just the guy with money that pays actually smart people to build rockets.

Just because your manager can tell other teams what YOU are working on, does not mean your manager has the technical chops to do it.

Media in a "attention grabbing headline" Era is like a snake eating its own tail. When everything is breaking news, nothing is....

headline: “Bad person X destroyed in epic clapback!”

reality: Bad person continues to do awful things with no repercussions, never reads criticism.

The only words I'm interested in hearing from these assholes are a few mumbled expressions of regret just before they die friendless, unloved, and surrounded by ghouls trying to get their claws on a fat inheritance.

It is at lesst in part a contraction of the imagination. Of what is thinkable. Of what is dreamable.

They can, and they will!

nice summary, thank you

Of course it’s his awful pose. WTF, journalists?