• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    HE ONLY GOT RICH OFF HIS DAD’S MONEY

    That's total BS. At best, he got rich off his mom's money, as she was a reasonably successful actress and his dad was a chronically insolvent huckster.

    But more realistically, he got rich after tripping into the online payment processing game on the ground floor and then platforming from elevator to elevator on the Endless Investor Cash Ride for the next ten years, while pocketing every public tax subsidy and government incentive he can get his grubby mitts on.

    Elon hit the lottery once, then grifted his way to the top, fair and square. All his dad did was teach him the rules of the rigged game. He was the guy who took 3-card monte to the eleven-figure level.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      But more realistically, he got rich after tripping into the online payment processing game on the ground floor

      This is literally a shitload of managers at small tech/marketing companies. Dummies, but they were buddies with the owners in the 00's and they were able to rake in money so they just kinda stuck around until they became the people who hold others to account for the money line going up/down