• Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    1 year ago

    His dad literally paid for everything when he moved to America. It’s easy to start a business when your education is fully paid for and there is literally no financial risk at all. Acting like he was self made is fucking ridiculous.

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      1 year ago

      Imagine life without concern and high expectations your dreams will be profitable. No wonder money makes money.

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      1 year ago

      Acting like he’s dumb and only succeeded through his father’s money and luck is also ridiculous. I wish people would try to have nuance views on famous people instead of this primitive love or hate dualism.

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        1 year ago

        There is plenty of evidence to suggest that he is an idiot. His handling of Twitter at the very least shows that he is no business genius. I wish people would stop acting like he is some sort of idol. He got where he is off the backs of other people. There is nothing to idolize there.

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          No one here is acting like he’s s some sort of idol, even though at least half of them did so a couple of years ago on Reddit, that’s what I’m talking about, basic dualism.
          He may be a bad boss, incompetent engineer, and bad human overall but he probably got some good skills to make the right choices to become one of the richest people. If you think he’s an idiot, then do you think he got there only from father’s money and pure luck? If not, then how did he do it, gods, magic? What’s Occam’s razor telling you? I’m not defending him, I’m defending reason.