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No, he's just rich. Being rich like that attracts money even if you're an incompetent buffoon
See: the US president
Then why hasn't everyone who started out with a couple hundred million grown it to over 300 billion? I mean, if it just happens naturally, even to incompetent buffoons, then why don't we see more people with 12 figure net worth's? There's thousands of people that start off in life with access to millions, but less than 2 dozen people have a net worth of over 100 billion.
Gee, I guess there's more to it than just simply being rich.
...You know what I hate? I hate how fucking idiotic people become when they talk about someone they don't like. It's like they don't even stop to think if the insult they're using makes any good damn sense. Musk is a deadbeat, drug addicted, Nazi piece of shit; but it's a such a fucking brain dead take to try to claim he hasn't accomplished anything in business.
Like, Michael Jordan is by all accounts a terrible person. There's lots of things you could say about him, but saying Musk just lucked or coasted his way to the top is like saying Michael Jordan wasn't good at basketball.
Do you not realize that dumbass statements like that actually make things worse? All the boot-licking tech bros who support Musk use opinions like yours as evidence that anyone who criticizes him is a smooth-brained idiot and then they dismiss the actual, legitimate criticisms.
I fucking hate this world. I'm getting to a point where I just wish everything would burn to the ground because everyone on both side of everything is just so fucking stupid. Idiot fascists are taking over everything and those on the other side just sound like whiny children because they're too fucking stupid to realize that just because someone is bad, doesn't mean literally ever bad quality can be attributed to them.
In case this is a serious question, the answer is that all bell curves have outliers.