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> Manipulating the public and business associates in order to become worth 200+ billions of dollars

It's not about manipulation and more riding an already existing wave. The tsunami of environmentalism, green everything etc.

Real bona fide manipulation is all about convincing people that YOU are the solution to each and every of their problem.

It entails jokes, touching people, pointing at people, blowing kisses, smiling a lot, playing an instrument. Most of all it has to be speeches, delivered from a stage.

Think Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Reagan, Trump...

I can't take Musk seriously because he cannot speak properly. When you are a leader you cannot hide behind the bird app forever. At some point you have to go out there and hold hold the crowd in your palm like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin used to do. That to me is social skill.

> "significant negative impact" on social skills.

Social skills you see them at the micro level , not at the macro level. That is after the halo effect of all the paid for publicity (plus all the abomination that is modern day social media) vanishes.

Once the halo effect vanishes everybody nopes the hell out of Musk life, including his confidantes, children and wives. So he has significant negative impact on social skills.

> However, unless he has 24 hours of shore leave before the Navy makes him get back on the boat, the 19-year old is inherently far more sketchy. He's in the prime years of his life for casual sex, and attracting mates. Why does he not have any friends with benefits? Why does he not have any exes, who departed on good enough terms for occasional hook-ups? Why does he not simply have a girlfriend?

People want to both travel the world/live the digital nomad lifestyle AND be able to be in bed with a 10/10 the night they land in Rio or Barcelona when they don't know anybody yet.

Escorts and sex workers provide a service that enables guys to do just that and get the best of both worlds, but the person who is getting the best of all worlds is the pensioneer who travels the world and has his quota subsidized by young clients.

> is an interesting debate

Indeed. What's not a debate is 19 y/o vs 91 y/o.

I did not mention race, political stance, skin color, language spoken or country of birth or any of those things. It's you who did that.

> Your own repulsion towards age

It's not me, it's Nature has a repulsion towards age, especially as it relates to sex and sex appeal. That's why people lose sex drive and attractiveness as they age, both men and women. Civilians and Sex workers alike.

> perhaps a fantasy of being an exception for any sex worker you’re with?

I just don't want to subsidize horny grandpa. Trying to be the exception and becoming friends with benefit as of today is the only rational way to go about it given the flat fee

It's a flat fee when the escort charges the same identical fee whether you are a 91 year old or a 19 year old.

> Seems like you believe that it’s less work to spend an hour with a 19 year old than a 91 year old?

Of course it is. Every fiber of her body is telling her that the 91 year old is non-viable and repugnant.

Every fiber of her body is telling her that the 19 year old is not only viable but yummy.

The flat fee is basically the 19 year old subsidizing the 91 year old for the immense effort that the escort has to make to override all the red alarms going off in her brain, heart and gut about having sex with a 91 year old.

On the contrary all the indicators are green when she's with the 19 year old but he has to pay the same rate of the 91 year old.

The huge elephant in the room for those who are on the other side of the transaction of Aella (and other girls who escort) is that the standard flat fee is an absolute joke.

It cannot be the same for a wrinkly 91 year old and a 19 year old.

Escorts are great, you can land in whatever city in the world, knowing absolutely nobody and you'll get female companionship with dinner date and sex (or even just sex) that same night.

The flat fee has to go though. The only way for the 19 year old not to get absolutely screwed by the flat fee is to befriend the escort and try and get in the "friends with benefit zone" with her.

People aren't attacking the delusional and temporarily embarassed billionaires and telling them to focus on a more realistic FIRE.

They are pouring gas on their delusions, big difference compared to the reaction to people who play the lottery.

> The lottery is a voluntary highly regressive tax. Poor people disproportionately play the lottery and are therefore disproportionately funding the lottery taxes.

If you are a regular non-connected, non-Ivy League folk, your odds of becoming a billionaire via day zero equity appreciation are roughly the same as becoming one via playing the lottery.

And yet this website is full of people deluding themselves that they can become one, and also cheering on other people posting their billion dollar delusions. It's always a real pain to watch the contempt that people who are doing well for themselves have for people who live in inner cities, while engaging in the same behavior, only from a relatively higher vantage point.

It's not even necessary to go all the way up to 1 billion, 100m net worth odds for a regular non-connected, non-Ivy League folk are also kinda the same playing lottery vs. day zero equity appreciation.

The crossover is somewhere below 100 million dollars, maybe even less than 10 million dollars or there about

Trump biggest drama is that his economic policies were sure winners, he should have trusted them to propel him to re-election instead of whatever he did with constant displays of his flawed character.

He is such a baby, doesn't understand that once you win the election and become POTUS attacks from media and opposite party don't matter anymore. The only things that matters is that you are POTUS and they aren't. End of the story, it's the only thing that matters. QB vs armchair QB, Heavyweight champion vs emerging shit talker who is at least 10 wins away from getting a shot at the belt.

The entire apparatus of the world's most powerful and richest country is geared toward making sure POTUS is the very last man on Earth if it comes down to that.

Baby couldn't find happiness in all of that and had to silence and shame critics, his character cost him the 2nd term. He lost it because he had to shame armchair QBs and irrelevant fighters.

If it was really the case then an anxious person should be able to talk themselves out of anxiety.

Aiming for a goal is great, but that's kinda not ambitious enough. Real ambition is reaching that goal with minimum effort and minimum headaches (or anxiety).

By self-inflicting headaches and anxiety on the very get go , you are also automatically waiving the best and pretty much sole optimal outcome. Not very ambitious of you, isn't it?

I don't know if this can help anybody.

I drew inspiration from Bill Gates quote : "I will always pick a lazy person to do some hard task because they'll find the least resource intensive way of doing it" something like that, the gist was anyway.

> without check-in or security

The biggest break for trains in the last 20 years hasn't been Maglevs or Japan's bullet. Matter of fact it has been OBL fixation on attacking America in a spectacular and televised fashion.

The lack of security abord trains is shocking honestly. Trains are special, there is something about them which calms people even the most evil, because ill intentioned people like terrorists and mentally deranged domestic shooters just ignore them.

AKA the biggest money sinkhole and waste of public funds ever created.

> Rich people don't play the lottery.

They do. It's called "incorporating a company" or "investing in the stock market" often with leverage.

I would guess that for a regular non-connected, non-ivy league folk the chance of becoming a billionaire is roughly the same creating a startup vs. the lottery.

At that point it makes sense to play the lottery if you are a "swing for the fences" kind of guy, that's because when odds are kinda the same it makes way more sense to throw 500$ monthly in lottery tickets than throwing 14h/6d/52w yearly in precious time to build a company or reading balance sheets of publicly traded companies

I challange you to try. Namedrop Hitler vs. Da Vinci and see how people react

Why do people spell God with a capital G? Or Universe with the capital U?

The entity or thing that holds up all the secrets deserves respect. Whether you think it's a guy dressed in white with a long white beard or an ethereal entity like Nature.

Leonardo da Vinci ahead of Hitler is pure fantasy.

95% of the population don't know who he was, his profession or are able to cite any of his work.

Everybody knows who Hitler is.

Mona Lisa vs. Hitler that I could see being a close one with maybe Mona Lisa ending up ahead. Still it would be Hitler IMHO.

But I don't think it's fair to attribute Mona Lisa fame to Leonardo

I think FOMO is a great strategy instead.

The point is FOMO-ing first, that is not in envy or in fear of missing out what other people are doing, but FOMO-ing because you see something in Nature or the structure of the marketplace (or both) which is an untapped opportunity.

Big tech is not FOMO-ing enough against Nature nor the Market. Each of the big tech companies have lost the willingness to put distance between themsevles and other big tech companies, maybe they are afraid of D.C. the DOJ and the whole Sherman Anti trust but at some point you have to be willing to go Super Nova just to experience what it feels like.

Google and Meta could be the ones to actually go and decide to go Super Nova, that's because of the double class shares which enables Page , Brin and Zuckerberg to call the shots without having to answer to investors who are clearly opposed to the concept of going Super Nova because it throws instability in their portfolios.

That's irrelevant, we are not going over there in Nigeria, India, Pakistan etc. they'll come over here in the developed world.

It's not even a matter of policy or politics or us vs. them...it's gonna happen, like gravity happens.

It makes sense to be prepared.

> And if you read HN and can't think of progress in the last five years, then you must be incredibly cynical.

Reading on HN means 99% of the times aspirational stuff. Aspirational stuff doesn't count.

What counts is stuff that improves quality of life in the real world, not just aspirationally sometimes in the future in order to play the musical chair game of the stock market or VC markets.

Stuff like mRNA vaccines.

An other example would be fracking but that largely happened 2005-2015

> Crazy reply to read here on hackernews where we're discussing innovations every single day.

I don't want to discuss, I want to use. Aspirational stuff doesn't improve the quality of life of anybody. It's the equivalent of small talk

> I think basically 0 electric cars being sold. I think basically 0 electric charging network. I think basically 0 grid scale solar panel build out. 0 compared to today, at least. We are in the midst of the electric car revolution, the petrochemical refilling grid is being deprecated IN REAL TIME all around us, cars are having AI models updated OTA to achieve lv3 or 4 driver assistance or even to drive themselves.

That stuff is not for us, it's for people who'd be alive 150 years from now. All the energy transition stuff won't improve our lives one bit, it just prolongs the churn rate of the planet. It's like when AiBnB raises the cleaning fee 1000% and unluckily you are the first client ever to have to pay it. It doesn't add anything to your experience and your staying at the venue. It's a cost, hence it's a minus, not a plus.

mRNA is an example of stuff that it's for us. Matter of fact I have it in me right now and I suppose so do you

> Like why are you even here?

I mean...somebody is being aggressive for no reason. I think making tons of money with software and copying app or by playing the poker game of founding>raising>exiting is nice and all. But at the end of the day making money is just step #1, you still need to have something worthy to buy with that money once you leave the poker table.

That's why Vegas has tons of venues, resturants and nightclubs and stripclubs in the proximity of poker tables. Without all the amenities Vegas would not be different than Oklahoma's Poker scene

> With unemployment at 3.5% and dropping and hiring still going strong, wages rising faster than at any point in most of our lives, I'm personally not worried about what will hopefully be light and necessary recession, even if the "2 quarters of negative GDP growth" is a bunk line, cooling off the economy until the global supply chains can resolve is obviously the only solution to inflation.

The best way to fool yourself into thinking that the country is moving in the right direction is to look at money metrics such as wages, GDP, savings etc. They deteriorate in a matter of weeks when shit hits the fan, so they are only backwards looking.

The sad reality is that we are not using any new or novel products/services compared to 5 years ago. If you exclude the mRNA vaccines the pipeline of innovation is also empty.

Where will the next bump in quality of life come from? We are still milking the internet by making copies of apps and websites .

I'll root for the dragon in this case, at least according to various myths we managed to defeat them many times in the past.

Squaring with aliens would be a first, they are a curveball

Doesn't change the core concept of my post. The enemy of the environment is not Exxon or Tesla or Shell.

The enemy of the environment are the CEO of Exxon, Shell and Tesla. Just one individual like that emits more CO2 than a small town during their whole lifetime of traveling in private jets and yachts to their big mansions all over the globe

> The fact that Exxon (edit: oops I mean shell) has a higher ESG score than Tesla should be all you need to know.

If you weren't so deeply into Musk intimate parts and repeat word for word his tweet you'd realize that it makes perfect sense.

Exxon only extracts the thing, it doesn't burn it. Tesla burns a lot of energy to build cars.

That's not to say ESG is a perfect system, perfection would be assigning an ESG score at the atomic level, meaning for every single human. At that point it wouldn't matter if you are the CEO of an oil company or the CEO of a coal car company which sells itself as a solar car company...when you board the G650ER you'd get the automatic Z-rating which puts you at the very bottom enabling peers to shame and attack you.

Of course it will never happen because the elites love to protect their CO2 intensive lifestyle while pontificating the rest of us to drive electric and eat bugs.

> "We cannot ignore the livability and environmental crises facing our world’s cities, and NEOM is at the forefront of delivering new and imaginative solutions to address these issues"

Imaginative and imaginary, apparently.

I am very upset about this. I always hoped that small firms outside of the US were immune to this sort of problems.

Rockstar Games has a relatively small team. RockStar North which based in Scotland and is the epicenter of the GTA saga development headcount is about 300.

That's very similar to a football franchise. In a football franchise coaches and players routinely taunt and tell each other off, but they always come back to each other and after winning games and championships they celebrate like nothing ever happened.

Why don't employees counter and insult back instead of quitting? Why don't managers take the heat back like men instead of firing that person?

This hypersensitivity has to end , for it is ruining everything that is cool. It has to start with managers, they need to be able to take insults and absorb them like men. Then employees have to do their part as well, not quitting and not suing, but hitting back like a WR when the coach gets too much his face

> MZ needs to create an attractive platform of his own

He already has it.

A platform of people > a platform of apps

Despite what people think about this guy being evil, robotic etc. He never used his 2.5B people platform to attack Apple, Google or any of the other tech companies. Nor to glorify himself or FB

Manufacturing hatred against competitors or super positive narrative for self can be done trivially and with little or no investment from Meta, given that they own FB, WA, IG.

The moment Zuckerberg steps down and another person gets at the helm of FB is gonna be a very tumoltous moment for humanity. People worried about Trump, Putin, Musk, Gates, WHO, WEF.. having too much power have seen nothing yet compared to a bad actor at the helm of FB.

It needs to be broken up, because if a bad actor manages to gain control of it, then it would be like the 1930s all over again. Except there would not be any place to escape to this time around

For Trump maybe, he got 4 years as the POTUS by saying crazy things in a crazy manner and with a crazy delivery.

Musk net worth however peaked before he started saying crazy things. What got him there was selling pie-in-the-sky ideas which never come to fruition, BS-ing investors and the ever powerful Us v. Them (oil companies, Wall St. shortsellers, hedge funds etc.)