During the latest Tesla stockholder meeting, CEO Elon Musk strongly suggests that the Cybertruck will see a starting MSRP above its initial $40,000 offer.
I mean, he's a lot of things, but i think being one of the world's best and most famous grifters, who is immensely more powerful than his father, disqualifies him from being a failson.
He’s speaking of his archetypal nature of “failson”. Many failsons are in positions of great power, sometimes even more than their parents. What makes a failson is imposter syndrome but real, they got their job through nepotism and can’t actually do the thing itself.
Elon can’t turn a profit with Tesla. They are still behind 1990 Russian rocket tech with billions in subsidies with Space X. Hyperloop and Boring company is dumb meme shit that makes no sense and will never get made/loses tons of money. He keeps making promises to disaster torn areas or people stuck in caves and just actively makes things worse. Comrade Musk gave Ukrainians internet that the Russian intelligence services uses to get targets for months before Ukraine took their soldiers phones.
Being a big pump-and-dump scam artist riding the crest of the wave doesn’t make him some genius, he just was in the right place at the right time for the conditions of capital and got lucky.
No, I am speaking of the archtypical def of failson, y'all are watering it down to the point of being much too overly broad and unhelpful.
The run of the mill connections of the monied elite are only nepotism in the broadest way, and aren't sufficient conditions for a failson. That's just being wealthy. Engaging in business ventures that don't produce tangible goods; that's just the logic of late capitalism.
Elon can’t turn a profit with Tesla.
Literally who cares lol. And I agree he's not a genius, but wealthy non-genius does not a failson make. Capitalist parasite, yes; failson, no. (See other comment for examples).
Lol. I care obviously about semantics and I care about our communal use of language. I dont care, and no one should, about the fundamentals about a musk company, insofar as this is an indicia of his success, because the market obviously doesn't. Musk turning a profit or not doesn't factor into his failure. And I say who cares because I would think it's evident to the posters here that this kind of success in a capitalist system has become wholely independent of creating a good product or whatever.
If you wanna debate bro me feel free to go to the comment on which I engaged you.
I think such a definition is just too broad. Just because he doesn't live up to the most attractive view of liberal meritocracy shouldnt define him as a "failson". He's certainly a goofus and his stans are really pitiable, but he's not living solely on his family name, he's not failing, he's not the kid who hid from the family at Thanksgiving or who takes a job at his daddy's company and just sits there with his dick in his hand.
Eric Trump, getting his hand held by all his father's people, pretending to do business things all day-- sure failson. Koch brother scion, a huge loser, who was given money to run his own absurd garish shirt company, which certainly runs in the red, is a failson. Hunter, failing at every endeavor, needing a constant stream of handlers to avoid embarrassing his father, failson. AJ soprano, archtypically failson. Making the best of wealthy networking and schooling, wild success in business: that's just the way of the world.
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I mean, he's a lot of things, but i think being one of the world's best and most famous grifters, who is immensely more powerful than his father, disqualifies him from being a failson.
He’s speaking of his archetypal nature of “failson”. Many failsons are in positions of great power, sometimes even more than their parents. What makes a failson is imposter syndrome but real, they got their job through nepotism and can’t actually do the thing itself.
Elon can’t turn a profit with Tesla. They are still behind 1990 Russian rocket tech with billions in subsidies with Space X. Hyperloop and Boring company is dumb meme shit that makes no sense and will never get made/loses tons of money. He keeps making promises to disaster torn areas or people stuck in caves and just actively makes things worse. Comrade Musk gave Ukrainians internet that the Russian intelligence services uses to get targets for months before Ukraine took their soldiers phones.
Being a big pump-and-dump scam artist riding the crest of the wave doesn’t make him some genius, he just was in the right place at the right time for the conditions of capital and got lucky.
No, I am speaking of the archtypical def of failson, y'all are watering it down to the point of being much too overly broad and unhelpful.
The run of the mill connections of the monied elite are only nepotism in the broadest way, and aren't sufficient conditions for a failson. That's just being wealthy. Engaging in business ventures that don't produce tangible goods; that's just the logic of late capitalism.
Literally who cares lol. And I agree he's not a genius, but wealthy non-genius does not a failson make. Capitalist parasite, yes; failson, no. (See other comment for examples).
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Lol. I care obviously about semantics and I care about our communal use of language. I dont care, and no one should, about the fundamentals about a musk company, insofar as this is an indicia of his success, because the market obviously doesn't. Musk turning a profit or not doesn't factor into his failure. And I say who cares because I would think it's evident to the posters here that this kind of success in a capitalist system has become wholely independent of creating a good product or whatever.
If you wanna debate bro me feel free to go to the comment on which I engaged you.
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I've read this and don't have the time or energy for a metaconversation. Cheers.
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Vampires have castles, they are successful. Period
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Louis 16, arguable failson. Louis 14, not a failson.
I think such a definition is just too broad. Just because he doesn't live up to the most attractive view of liberal meritocracy shouldnt define him as a "failson". He's certainly a goofus and his stans are really pitiable, but he's not living solely on his family name, he's not failing, he's not the kid who hid from the family at Thanksgiving or who takes a job at his daddy's company and just sits there with his dick in his hand.
Eric Trump, getting his hand held by all his father's people, pretending to do business things all day-- sure failson. Koch brother scion, a huge loser, who was given money to run his own absurd garish shirt company, which certainly runs in the red, is a failson. Hunter, failing at every endeavor, needing a constant stream of handlers to avoid embarrassing his father, failson. AJ soprano, archtypically failson. Making the best of wealthy networking and schooling, wild success in business: that's just the way of the world.