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0 pointstoomuchtodo2mo ago0 comments

Ego and lack of emotional intelligence is a hell of a thing. Global electrification continues without Tesla (~20% of global auto sales are EVs, ~50%+ in China, as of this comment), a casualty of hubris.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how...

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pstuart2mo ago

Drug abuse, boundless wealth, and surrounding yourself with sycophants can skew one's perception of reality.

toomuchtodoOP2mo ago

He’s always been this person, the wealth just amplified it. Sometimes the wrong people fall into power. Sometimes we trust the wrong people. Most of life is luck.

Take the ketamine, wealth, and sycophants away, he will still be this person. But without the power. Human condition is tricky.

panick21_2mo ago

He was not always the same person, certainty not politically. Like many other covid and a few other things had a major impact.

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disqard2mo ago

I think you have a point.

I often think of Tony Hsieh (Zappos founder/CEO), who was a much more grounded and humble person before he became extremely wealthy. Perhaps he had the tendencies/propensities (that ended his life) dormant all along, and his wealth suddenly boosted those deadly habits.

He went from this:

https://youtu.be/jJ5k_Byd9Fs?si=XeYpu-rUNos_dwgI

...to this:

https://straightforwardinteractive.com/2020/12/08/tony-hsieh...

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deeg2mo ago

I could imagine that years of ass kissing have made him worse.

kevin0612mo ago

>most of life is luck

I wish everyone understood this.

Unfortunately, the rich and billionaire class are convinced they got where they did just because of sheer personal effort. This of course is delusional. Effort is important, but luck is essential.

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pseudohadamard2mo ago

I also think of him as a ten-year-old boy with access to infinite amounts of other people's money. Embarrassing stunts like "let that sink in" is the sort of thing my friends and I would have done at age ten thinking we were being awfully clever and witty, but no-one past the age of about fourteen or fifteen would still think that. And stuff like the Cybertruck is what you'd expect if you gave a ten-year-old (or Homer Simpson) some pencils and paper and said "draw your dream vehicle".

Hikikomori2mo ago

Didn't help that his family moved to South Africa because Canada wasn't racist enough.

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pstuart2mo ago

Drug abuse, boundless wealth, and surrounding yourself with sycophants can skew one's perception of reality.

toomuchtodoOP2mo ago

He’s always been this person, the wealth just amplified it. Sometimes the wrong people fall into power. Sometimes we trust the wrong people. Most of life is luck.

Take the ketamine, wealth, and sycophants away, he will still be this person. But without the power. Human condition is tricky.

panick21_2mo ago

He was not always the same person, certainty not politically. Like many other covid and a few other things had a major impact.

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disqard2mo ago

I think you have a point.

He went from this:

https://youtu.be/jJ5k_Byd9Fs?si=XeYpu-rUNos_dwgI

...to this:

https://straightforwardinteractive.com/2020/12/08/tony-hsieh...

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deeg2mo ago

I could imagine that years of ass kissing have made him worse.

kevin0612mo ago

>most of life is luck

I wish everyone understood this.

Unfortunately, the rich and billionaire class are convinced they got where they did just because of sheer personal effort. This of course is delusional. Effort is important, but luck is essential.

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pseudohadamard2mo ago

Hikikomori2mo ago

Didn't help that his family moved to South Africa because Canada wasn't racist enough.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse