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Please don’t compare Musk to useless wealthy people. He’s invested almost his entire net worth in space travel and electric vehicles.

Least terrible billionaire (no sleight to Buffet and Gates though, solid philanthropy effort of their part).

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If you look at most of the unicorns - ie Uber - they are living off of VC funding without any clear path to profitability.

At every turn, Musk has put his money where his mouth is. He could have taken his billions years ago and sailed off into the sunset. He wanted to change the world.

Uber is making money hand over fist. Their Yoy revenue growth is 60%. They would be fools not to be investing their capital in growth.

Revenue is nothing without profit or at least positive marginal revenue.

Uber subsidizes rides. No one knows what will happen to Uber once they charge enough to turn a profit on each ride.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-must-raise-fares-and-...

As long as he's not calling you a "pedo". That's pretty terrible in my book.

I’ve seen better people have more severe lapses of judgement.

I’m not condoning what he said, but I can understanding what lead up to it.

Really? You can "understand" why a person, a public figure who runs several large companies, would make baseless accusations against a person he disagrees with, in an attempt to ruin this person for life?

I can't understand that at all.

People get angry, irrationally so sometimes. Live long enough and you come to understand (in my experience).

I have seen people ruined for more petty disagreements.

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