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Elon Musk, son of a South African Emerald mine owner is a smart cookie. He used his Canadian mother to get Canadian status making it easier to come to the US than an African. But he's is truly an African American unlike the millions of black people who have never even seen Africa for at least a dozen generations. But I digress.
Like I said he's smart and created programs that were sold for millions of dollars. He took on challenges where the government would guarantee billions in funding. Most importantly he hired smart people who made the enterprises successful. Can't say he deserves to be the world's richest man but can't say he doesn't.
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He's a lot less rich now (I say as another shareholder, not that I'm complaining) than he was a few months ago. And soon, buying Twitter at a massive premium.
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Much speculation about what he would do with Twitter. One is that he may change its target market from personal based discussion groups to something described only as X.
Many also cite how this is outside his current experience. But then Howard Hughes also did things unrelated to airplanes - and succeeded.
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That you noticed.
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I hope that when it does, it will be mild enough to let you tell us about it.
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I'm still mad about horseless carriages. It isn't in God's plan for a conveyance to be animated by spirits and vapors.
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Agreed, too dangerous, and too much infrastructure investment for some new-fangled pipe dream.
And.. in addition to the aforementioned considerations, what of the farm hands who'll lose their careers in the hay-to-horse industry? I'll tell you what-- we'll be creating a standing army of pitchfork-wielding drunkards! I wouldn't wish the blood which the streets will run red with on the hands of my worst enemy, and yet there it will certainly be, by my reckoning.
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egads let us not speak of such things