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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by memish on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:34AM (#31052649)
The idea that his success is due to that is another olympic level contortion. He wasn't given millions of dollars to start, let alone billions. Even if he was, it would still be impressive converting that into Tesla and SpaceX, as opposed to a yacht.

Realize that most people born to well off parents don't do shit. If insecurity needs an outlet, maybe redirect it to the rich kids of Instagram, not the guy who is helping solve climate change and get us back into space.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tempest_ on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:45AM (#31052733)
I was not really commenting on how he achieved his success.

I was commenting on the appeal to the "American Dream(tm)".

Though if you want to follow it to the root if he was born black in the townships he likely would not have amounted to much, no matter how hard he worked it is unlikely he would have ever made it out of the country.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by throwaway894345 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:53AM (#31052789)
Seems a little strange to criticize the American Dream on the basis of South African apartheid.
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