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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I think some of the fan phenomenon is just how much money he has, although of course that's not the only thing. Like if he plans to spend all his money over the next decade (probably he doesn't) and he doesn't make any more money or interest, then if you can get one single second of his financial attention, then that is worth like a thousand dollars, so of course anyone like that will be swarmed by so many people.

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> "I work in the aerospace industry and know several current and former senior engineers at SpaceX. None of them would agree with your assessment that Musk has done no meaningful work for SpaceX, or is a poor engineer incapable of valuable work."

Could you expand that more? Like what meaningful work did your acquaintances say Musk did for SpaceX and what valuable engineering work did they think he was capable of doing?

Maybe Musk socially engineered a kind of nerd reputational ant mill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill where everyone who works in the aerospace industry knows several current and former senior engineers at SpaceX, none of whom agree with the assessment that Musk has done no meaningful work for SpaceX, or is a poor engineer incapable of valuable work.

I know he had pocket emeralds when he was a teenager and he bought twitter and made a lot of stupid tweets, but those things don't take much time, maybe in his other time he did amazing things.

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I remember looking this up before, and game rule sets are not protected in USA. You can't make some game rules and say that other people can't make that game. The things that are protected are the things that go along with the game, like if you use any trademark name in the game or if you use any protected media like if it's a card game then you can't use the same card art. My understanding is that you can make a game with the same rules as scrabble and not call it scrabble or use their art and you are allowed to do it.

Edit: this is getting upvoted so maybe at this point I should say I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice lol

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

sometimes that depends on circumstance how easy or hard that decision is, for example if you got pocket emeralds as allowance from your parents when you were a teenager it might be easier to have means and agency to build equity for yourself, whereas if you were literally a medieval serf born into a fief then it might be harder to make this decision to build equity for yourself maybe you will have to revolt

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

fourth type is when someone else does the great work and you get the credit

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Once it's socially expected to wear these in certain settings, they will start putting ads in them.

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

it's beej saying why he write guides

ftxbro

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

> "The way I see it, it's the educators who hold all the power in the world. No, stop laughing and hear me out. A good instructor can, over the course of their career, create hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of GDP. Let's say a teacher teaches 40 students a year for 30 years. And Each of those students goes on to work for 40 years. And, due to the quality of instruction, they earn $10,000 more per year than they would have otherwise. That's $480 million in extra revenue. From one good instructor."

OK but providing value isn't the same as having power. It's almost the opposite thing.

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