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0 pointsliteralAardvark3y ago0 comments

Then you'll be very impressed by the number of creations Rockefeller had. Standard Oil itself was an empire, not a factory, in a time when it took weeks and an army to get even information sent out.

Carnegie was incredible as well.

I'm not saying Elon isn't impressive, he is. He's just not the MOST impressive.

One tiny space sailing company and a shoddy carriage company compare poorly to the empires of Standard Oil, Carnegie steel, Ford, and the side projects of these people (multiple high impact philanthropic enterprises). They're the literal hands that built America.

He's still young though, there's some hope for him.

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pbreit3y ago

I'm confused. Rockefeller now gets credit for Carngeie, Mellon and Ford? Spacex, the by far most prolific private space company ever is a "tiny space company"? The by far most consequential EV company is a "shoddy carriage company"? And not even mentioning Zip2, PayPal, OpenAI, Boring or Neuralink? Wow.

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