Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy | the richest man in the world is nothing but the world's biggest case of survivorship bias - and a profound indictment of capitalism's "great man" theory
Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy | the richest man in the world is nothing but the world's biggest case of survivorship bias - and a profound indictment of capitalism's "great man" theory
Walter Isaacson tried to write a "Great Man" biography of the rockets-and-cars genius. That's not an effective way to understand Elon Musk.
If a person can simultaneously be CEO of three companies, CEO must not actually be a hard or important job
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I mean, yeah. Not only do they have all the people under them doing all the actual work, but the fewer authorities you have over you and the fewer peers you have, the less you are accountable. CEOs have no peers, and the only authorities over them are the board of directors and the capitalists (major shareholders). And a CEO who is also one of the capitalists circumvents the board, has no authorities above them, and has only the other capitalists (if there are any) as peers. Its a great position to be in...if only the people doing the actual work could share that position (socialism) rather than being victims of it (capitalism).
Elon can literally do nothing. He should do nothing. Everything he does do simply fucks people over. And that's true in general of CEOs and capitalists. Their only real job is to discipline the labor they are exploiting under them, in order to maximize that exploitation. Everything else can (and generally does) take care of itself.
When you have infinity money, there's no risk in risking money.
As a rich white man, living in the largest economy in the world,with Ivy league education, the odds were pretty much in his favour.
So, dude is pretty much just bruteforcing through life because there's very little chance he'll be accountable for any of his Fuck-ups.
People call it brilliance, when it's just dumb luck paired with personality disorder.
Musk’s management philosophy — his “production algorithm”: (1) Question every requirement, (2) Delete any part or process you can, (3) Simplify and optimize, (4) Accelerate cycle time, (5) Automate.
complete techbro bullshit
steve jobs' biography says this:
Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he asked for no control over its content other than the book's cover, and waived the right to read it before it was published.
which may explain the sycophantic tone here
“The kids were each given small rations of food and water, and they were allowed—indeed encouraged— to fight over them. (…) Near the end of the first week the boys were divided into two groups and told to attack each other. (…) Every few years, one of the kids would die.”
The heck is this cliche straight out of anime and games. Even those have the sensibility to not portray something like this as a positive.
Lord of the Flies
novelized Lord of the Flies – not real life Lord of the Flies
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Illegal anti-union actions are a problem for the Democratic party coalition.
This guy doesn't know Democrats very well. But generally a good article.
Bonus points for the best bit:
If the most-clever users got to run Twitter, then Dril would be Twitter CEO!
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Really good read. I had trouble determining if the author had a bigger problem with Musk or with Isaacson.