He’s the DJ Khaled of technology. Ubiquitous, yet lacking any real talent in the field except for being a hype man.
N.B. This is an opinion, not necessarily a fact.
Musk is the Lyle Lanley of technology
Nah, Lyle has charisma
Musk has charisma for idiots.
Probably can’t even sing though
No doubt Lyle has him beat overall.
Trump also has charisma for idiots.
Not even close to a comparison. Thomas actually invented stuff. Muskrat just pays people to slave away for him.
Also payed to be credited as a founder
He’s like the Space Harrier II of trillionaires…
Man, that guy is the Redgren Grumbholdt of pretending he knows what’s going on.
Or maybe Carlos Kaiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Kaiser_(footballer)No talent con artist who convinced all sorts of supposedly smart people to give him money over decades of not doing anything but hyping himself up.
He’s more like the biggest fucking waste of human trash in existence
All together now, as we bow our heads and pray to saint Luigi…
Cool. Never heard about T.Midgely though…
During his career as a chemist he invented both leaded gas and the early CFCs that caused the ozone crisis. There is an argument made amongst online people (not historians or experts) that Thomas Midgely is the individual person who has caused the most harm to humanity as a whole. Not Ghengis Khan, whos armies killed so many people its visible in the fossil record or any of the modern dictators you call people to win arguments online. Its the guy who poisioned generations and directly caused two dips in global life expectancy in the same decades by simply doing his job. The some of the risks of his creations were known at the time, people have known about lead poisioning since before liking Big-J was legal, yet warnings were ignored, his inventions were still patented and sold to the masses (harming billions).
The irony is that Midgley was killed by his self-invented medical hoist (he caught polio and was partially paralized). fElon has never actually made anything, he has been part of the owner class his whole life, so I dont think OPs analogy applies.
Have you heard of CFC or leaded fuel?
Thank that numpty for those.
Thomas Midgley Jr invented things that solved technological problems currently affecting the world at the time using the best options he found at the time. Yes, they turned out to be bad but they did solve the problem.
Elon bankrolls smart people to do the work to fly to space/make, arguably mediocre, cars whilst doing nothing himself and actively making things worse for those people. Plus, an awkward dweeb - not a nerd, not an egghead, but a loser and dweeb. He may be a millionaire but he has incel energy.
The two are not the same.
