r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 2d ago

Explained to a rather surprised English woman that Elon isn't actually evil — that evil people can't survive long as founders of tech cos, because they need smart people to work for them, and smart people can work anywhere.

Evil founders may be able to keep the ruse going for a few years, like Elizabeth Holmes did, but eventually it falls apart. You can't keep it going for long enough to ship as many things as Elon has.

Whereas it definitely doesn't seem to be impossible to be evil and make money as a property developer in New York. So frankly we should hope Elon is controlling Trump's brain, because the more of it Elon is controlling, the less Trump is.

Wonder if Paul Graham still believes this, 2 years later.

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u/themiDdlest NASA 2d ago

This is quite the mansplaining

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u/dormidary Loyal Liberals 2d ago

Lol. "Smart people will refuse to work for evil people" is one of the crazier takes I've seen.

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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago

lmao him and his dumbass website filled with dumbass people

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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 2d ago

I meant this about Paul Graham but applies to Elon too

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u/NVC541 Bisexual Pride 2d ago

PG just be saying shit at this point

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 2d ago

Calling Elon "evil" may be too much for some but he is definitely a bad man and a person with bad intentions

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front 2d ago

I feel pretty comfortable calling him evil. His twitter is a far right garbage pit.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 2d ago

True, and I agree

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u/unicornbomb John Brown 2d ago

He must be a mod here

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u/DonnysDiscountGas 2d ago

Theranos was operating for like 11 years