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[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, what? Have you ever heard of longtermism? "Your stupid peasants' suffering today matters little if we can take humanity to space^TM^. Don't hold back progress." If this is not enslaving humanity and shitting on the poor, I don't know what is.

[–] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you even talking about? Care to elavorate? How is he making anyone suffer?

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you're sealioning, this is a waste of time :/ he's at least as scummy as any other billionaire, like Zucky, Bezos, Gates, Thiel and all the other ones nobody hears about.

[–] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you think the media goes so hard after Elon and we don't hear much or anything at all about the others? Why is there a rabid cult of anti muskers that try to denigrate him at every opportunity? What is their agenda? When someone is singled out it should make you reflect on the reason why. He is hardly the worst billionaire around yet he gets all the flak.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The media drooled all over him and carried him until he declared war on them. Look up news of him before 2020, there is hardly anything negative (and there should be, he's been manipulating stock and treating employees like shit, like the other Billionaires). When did the media say anything critical about hyperloop? You live by hype, you die by hype.

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Why do you think the media goes so hard after Elon and we don’t hear much or anything at all about the others?

Because the others stay out of the spotlight. Musk deliberately shitposts and wants to be seen, so the media (and everyone else) sees him and reacts to that.

But if you take your time to actually acquaint yourself with matters, you will notice that the media and everyone else are also very busy criticising other corporations and other billionaires. It is just that Musk being the narcissist that he is, very much like Trump, deliberately create stories on a daily basis through his poor judgement and constant craving for exposure.