Elon Musk Is An Idiot (and so are Zuck and SBF)

Tech CEOs aren't geniuses, and here's the proof.
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SOURCES:
Twitter might go bankrupt: bit.ly/3AEATuK
Meta laying off 11,000 people: cnn.it/3tVoj6H
FTX collapse: cnn.it/3hWfRRN
Twitter Blue impersonations; only 140,000 people signed up: nyti.ms/3XubTQQ
Advertisers pulling back from Twitter: nbcnews.to/3gwJqcs
Musk begs laid-off Twitter workers to come back: bit.ly/3GKkrwT
Background on the Twitter/FTC consent decree: bit.ly/3gu8518
Twitter becoming unstable: bit.ly/3EYnlNt
Zuck smokes those meats: bit.ly/3XvasBu
Zuck has to order his employees to use Horizon Worlds: bit.ly/3VjiE60
Memory-holed SBF profile from Sequoia Capital: bit.ly/3V4k30v
SBF suck at League of Legends: bit.ly/3gvLuBr

[@arceuslegend4605]

As a former Elon fanboy, I gotta tell ya, turning 18 and touching grass more often really helped clarify how stupid it was to nearly worship the man.

[@annmarieknapp2480]

It's okay. Elon fooled many. And our society reveres people who have vast wealth and power. No matter what happens in your life, stay true to yourself and what you want to do or achieve. Success that you earn, no matter how you define it will taste so sweet because you did it on your own merits. All of these paragon of virtue are finally being seen for who and what they are. It's sad and disappointing. But, there are real heroes out there. Starting with people like you who have a heart and integrity.

[@Narangarath]

At least you grew out of it, which is a lot more than can be said for many others. So, hats off!

[@shivam_nagar69]

me since day 1 when i heard about elon because literally every media was going crazy on him, i started doing my own research found about his crazy rich dad, i was like "oh okay here we go again, rich becoming richer? nothing new"

[@sjg9887]

Yeah at least you grew out of it. The new CEO of my company wants to eliminate the two days home office a week that we have because Elon did it..he’s a grown man! Luckily he backed out when he realized it would make su súper uncompetitive un the market but it took me an hour of reasoning with him.

[@nathanseper8738]

@@annmarieknapp2480 You are one of the most intelligent people alive. (I am saying that unsarcastically.)

[@rsr789]

The problem is that people equate intelligence with money, and THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!

[@rsr789]

@AgroPenguin Please demonstrably prove your claim.

[@Thebustermann]

​@@rsr789 it is kinda proportional. If you cant wipe your own ass, you aren't generally gonna be earning much of anything.

[@vaclavsubrt5474]

Yes, but also being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean being smart as well.

[@mmc5261]

So true

[@rsr789]

@@Brandon-gw9qk Musk isn't an aerospace engineer, so WTF are you babbling about??

[@exukvera]

Expectation: Colonize Mars Reality: Fail to take care of a bird

[@urhypeboy]

I mean, WHO names their bird "X" anyway 💀

[@wavestrider2160]

Reality: bisected the bird twice and use its blood to draw X for some reason

[@arelendil7]

We cannot colonize Mars. We cannot terraform Mars, throwing some nukes as Musk allegedly said is not going to warm Mars, it can actually be a catastrophe. It is more probable today that we will destroy the Earth, and die here, than we would be able to terraform Mars. Science and engineering is done today by groups of people, not one person. They are the ones who really do the job and present possible solutions. They are all geniuses, experts in their own little piece of the puzzle, because knowledge is vast and complex. And you need to keep on training otherwise you may forget what you have learned. Musk is a physicist, has he ever work as such? Has he a PhD? Which was his specialty? CEOs decide, but they are not the ones doing research, the ones with the knowledge, the thinking. They are the ones with the power and/or the money... and unfortunately they are usually narcissistic.

[@ericnierstedt6242]

For the record, Rod Serling was talking about these people OVER SIXTY YEARS AGO. There's an episode from season 4 of Twilight Zone about a rich man who goes back in time to live his life again, screws it up because he misremembered the past, and is unable to rebuild his empire because everything he made money on was somebody else's idea. It's called "Of Late I Think of Cliffordsville' and it fits modern times way better then Jordan Peele's reboot ever did.

[@hexcss9153]

@@sumatiousAnd you do understand that Elon never founded Tesla right? And that he simply joined about two years after it was already established and making cars, forced the CEO to resign, and then settled on a lawsuit that allowed him to call himself a co-founder even though he never founded anything

[@INgirl812]

Thx for sharing. Even Tesla was someone else’s idea. He BOUGHT it from a couple of guys.

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@sumatious your joking, right? Like, I assume your post is sarcasm, but also, there are people who will post that unironically.

[@xBINARYGODx]

BTW the twilight zone also did "waaa taxing rich people bad" episodes too - the monkey paw episode is but one example.

[@pablovirus]

???​@@sumatious

[@CelynBrum]

I laughed so hard when the "Metaverse" was announced because right after a global pandemic when *everyone is sick to the back teeth of interacting digitally* was probably the worst time in human history to advertise a virtual future.

[@trevorhardy4161]

I mean personally I wish we could force it on humanity. It’s the way of the future and hating it only sets us back decades

[@kvothe7320]

@@trevorhardy4161 Dude the metaverse is definitely not "the way of the future"

[@alteregobruh]

@@trevorhardy4161lmao no metaverse is just “digital way to talk to people” or, as I call it, “talk to people on a worse platform while giving a rich man more money”

[@robbieaulia6462]

@@trevorhardy4161 and how is that the way of the future? Making people a slave to a social media network because all of their money, properties, and their social life is on that said social media network which is controlled by a single person who acts nothing like a normal human, is constantly stealing your private information, and can silence your voice at any moment because some government beurocrats gave them a pile of cash is the way of the future for you? Even a psychopath doesn't want that.

[@Matt-ru5rw]

@@trevorhardy4161 🤣🤣🤣🤣 never happening bro. All these tech futurist idiots are living in their own autistic fantasies and not the actual real world.

[@apmessner]

Fun Fact: Elon also didn’t co-found PayPal. He bought his way into that one, too, after conning Compaq into vastly overpaying for his Dollar Store version of an online phone book.

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

Well, Compaq paid him $307 million so if that was a "con" job then he is an absolute genius and virtuoso con man.

[@geraltrivia9565]

⁠@@Laotzu.Goldbugor that Compaq is also incompetent and stupid

[@chestersnap]

​@obergruppenfuhrerjohnsmith1984 sorry, are we fans of con men now?

[@greymatter77]

@@chestersnap It's called being conservative. What? You don't think this is a good counter-argument. Hey! Elon may be dumb when it comes to everything that isn't conning, but he's absolutely brilliant at being a morally bankrupt leach on society and tricking gullible people. Honestly, being able to con Compaq mostly has to do with them trusting his "vison", because of his parents. His Dad became super rich robbing the natural resources of a developing country in turmoil. So, not a good track record there, either.

[@littlekong7685]

@@Laotzu.Goldbug Well, it was his brother not him that secured the deal (and who has an actual education in programming), so go ahead and praise him instead. Musk was apparently given a pittance share ($22 mil) and a job and some shares as part of the deal negotiated entirely by his brother.

[@hipsnowsis7374]

Adam has the anger of Alex Jones but it's directed the opposite way. I'm here for it personally.

[@KrisKol83]

This guy directs it in the proper Direction. Where its needed.

[@peregrinecovington4138]

Imagine being furious at poor people who have nothing. Capitalists are so lame

[@hannahdawg6829]

He also doesn't sound like a used car salesman with bronchitis XD

[@zakkizer2490]

And doesn’t spread vicious lies about grieving parents

[@zakkizer2490]

@@hannahdawg6829and doesn’t spread heinous lies about parents of school shooting victims

[@evenberg8499]

"The Metaverse is emptier than his childhood's birthday parties." Ouch .

[@jax_firestorm9689]

Friendly reminder that Elon has not one, but TWO extremely rich parents. Edit: if you are planning on commenting something along the lines of: “So what? They didn’t help that much!”, “Haha you’re just jealous.” or “They weren’t that rich.”, please do not waste my time. Please do not waste your time. Consider commenting anything else, anywhere else. You’re not original. If you would like to contribute to the conversation, I would love to hear your opinion.

[@richardsanchez5983]

OMG how dare he be born from 2 successful parents 😂 so what you jealous?

[@jrisbak]

No they were not, they were upper middle class Elon took out student loans to go to college

[@davidshatto7604]

@@jrisbak dude they owned an airplane and an emerald mine. His mom was on the cover of time and vogue in what world is this an upper middle class background

[@jonbongjovi1869]

@@richardsanchez5983 It proves he NEVER WORKED A REAL JOB IN HIS LIFE and never had to face ADVERSITY.....so his brain got SOFT like ALL rich kids. (Name a rich kid who is smart, loser. You can't. They got rich via DADDY.) MUSK and ZUCK are MAN-BABIES. Watch them in interviews!! They have the IQ of cavemen!! Every other word out of moron Musk's mouth is "Y'know"!!! Yeah real self made. You ARE GULLIBLE and believe 100% of the lies of the billionaire-owned press, loser.

[@ce7545]

So that probably means his parents were smart and passed down those genes to Elon. If Elon were dumb he would have blown his parents money

[@lukestanley4862]

Imagine being the person that made Ely lilly lose billions simply by spending 8 dollars

[@TheMntnG]

he made a video about it. look it up

[@jimmanis6717]

Eli Lilly never lost a dime. The market cap is not money in their pocket. And in fact stock is higher than before the tweet. But by all means believe the fake news instead of looking at the stock market.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Absolute goddamn royalty

[@cbpd89]

Screw Eli Lilly, I give that person infinite high fives for giving us all a bit of schadenfreude.

[@tjenadonn6158]

The all time Sultan of Shitposting.

[@matthewwilliams3827]

He truly is. Embarrassing that these are supposed to be our “smartest” people, is scary for the world.

[@peekychu5235]

Our society is full of people who lack skepticism. Questioning makes you a hateful person, being agreeable makes you an optimistic person, which is rewarded in society. This rolled in around 2010 and it has been in full swing since. It creates a culture where people like musk thrive

[@nouranibrahim10]

👏👏👏👏

[@megapussi]

it didnt "roll in" in 2010 being trusting and easy to manipulate has been a human trait for thousands of years 😂

[@fenris_wuffy]

mark failing with the metaverse is even more hilarious, because he has billions to develop it, but furries can make better vr chat models that have three times the features with one hundredth of that budget

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

Never doubt the power of horny people.

[@goncalves4269]

Not only furries, private MMO servers such as pirate World of Warcraft as well lol

[@aaronbredon2948]

The Metaverse gives me flashbacks to MySpace - you know, the Facebook-alike of 30 years ago that crashed and burned.

[@superkobster]

zuckerberg really spent 40 billion when he could've spent 200$ on some guy's furaffinity page for something orders of magnitude more high quality

[@grjk5044]

I didn't realize Meta was supposed to be that extensive. It's not even an original idea. It's like he read Ready Player One and wanted to make the Oasis, something that even in the fictional world took like a decade, Rushed it and ended up with the Miiverse instead.

[@electric_claire]

Correction on Elon: he didn't co-found PayPal. He started a much smaller payment processor that got bought by PayPal. As part of that acquisition he asked for the right to call himself a founder.

[@williamyoung9401]

"Together with his brother Kimbal, he founded Zip2, which later became his first successful business venture. They sold the company to Compaq Computer Corp. for $307 million in 1999, with Musk pocketing $22 million from the sale. This set the stage for his future entrepreneurial endeavors."

[@jameslatta6813]

Which is an achievement in its own right.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

He also got fired from Paypal due to mind-boggling levels of incompetence. He was able to fail upwards as he owned shares in it, so when it was sold he was able to invest in t esla the company that made him a billionaire

[@jameslatta6813]

@@Alex-cw3rz He's not stupid. You do not become the richest man on Earth by being an idiot.

[@X862go]

I thought it was a merger?

[@ignisvis8867]

It's so funny when a self proclaimed "genius" try to reinvent public transportation, only to end up making dumb bad version of trains and busses

[@CmdrTobs]

Adam Something nodoubt. Heard the same point from my friends mouth IRL. it's OK to be an internet sheep, but when the same people claim to not understand Elon's psycophants.....

[@hexcss9153]

@@CmdrTobsYou call others internet sheep when all you do is repeat the same talking points you hear in Elon fanboy videos?

[@n3bruce]

This is not new, PBS had a series on the Robber Barons of the late 19th century. They accumulated so much wealth that they were no longer able to find profitable investments, so they built their gilded palaces. They all hung out at a exclusive hunting and fishing lodge in western Pennsylvania, a few miles upstream of the town of Johnstown. When the poorly constructed dam failed after days of heavy rain, it killed over 2200 people, many of who toiled in the factories and mines that made them so wealthy. The gilded palaces only sucked up part of their excess wealth, so they turned to actually building universities, hospitals, and cultural centers that they put their name on, in part because some tiny part of them had a conscience, but most of it was to shore up their battered public image, and as a tax write off. They appointed their heirs to administer the foundations in charge of these institutions, so over time the money stays in the family, rather than the hands of the tax collector. While private philanthropy's benefits as opposed to using it on public works are debatable, some do solid work. Today's mega billionaires, once they reach a certain point, start doing the same, but it usually takes to about age 55 before they get serious about Philanthropy. Bill Gates and the Walton family have reached that point, the businesses have matured to the point that they have a long term viable business model and are sufficiently diversified that the failure of any one business, even Microsoft won't hurt the family fortune too much. Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg and the founders of Google are all relatively young men who have most of their fortunes tied up in their core businesses. In the background the new generation is hedging their bets as fast as they can without raising too many eyebrows, but the end game is already here for their Marquee platforms, as they try to squeeze the golden goose harder and harder. The novelty of sending Teslas into space has worn off, and some of the other stunts they have pulled only seem to anger the public (and more importantly) their investors. Even a yacht the size of a WW2 destroyer is passe, so many Russian oligarchs have done it that it is a punchline. If the likes of Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos want to leave this world without people cursing their name for generations, they will eventually have to follow the same path.

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

"It's so dumb it's brilliant!" "NO, IT'S JUST DUMB!"

[@chawaphiri1196]

Reminds me of glass onion

[@tom_reagan]

@@chawaphiri1196 Brilliant. 🙃

[@teslaromans1023]

I love how eagerly this movie was mocking Elon 😂😂

[@liamnehren1054]

@@teslaromans1023 BEFORE most people knew what a tool he is.

[@SkollMX]

@@chawaphiri1196 Pretty sure that was the point

[@megsley]

I am so thankful the large financial institution I work for literally asked us if we wanted them to get in with nfts and the metaverse - the employee response was a resounding NO and the company hasn't touched any of that garbage.

[@mediawarrior5957]

Main sign crypto and NFTs are garbage Porn industry has nothing to do with them. They are the early adopters of the media world

[@CorelUser]

Letting employees have a voice in the decision making of a large company is so socialist and I'm all here for it

[@picklepirate]

I love this

[@picklepirate]

@@CorelUser no, it’s actually opposite of socialism because the institution isn’t implementing broad decisions

[@picklepirate]

@@CorelUser summarized in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, socialism is “a centrally planned economy in which government controls all means of production.”

[@clasherking4528]

I always put myself down because I thought I didn't know anything...... Now I can claim that Im smarter than fake geniuses. Thanks Adam

[@JeffMillsObviously]

Adam Conover calling other humans idiots is pretty funny and ironic.

[@McShavey]

"... the problem is, our culture, our entire society is run by dudes like this. Privileged, incompetent men who claim to be changing the world when what they're really doing is hoarding power they don't deserve." *chef's finger kiss* Bellissimo - this is exactly it.

[@god-of-war-fan]

Right….. so incompetent that they managed to earn fortunes out of nothing 💀while you’re stuck bitching about them

[@cokebear1337]

Adam is malding because he is not even 1% as rich as those ‘idiots’, and completely embarrassed himself on Joe Rogan.

[@minaryeon9259]

This sums up everything especially rising "tech billionaireas "

[@allenblevins7430]

@@cokebear1337 He embarrassed himself by going on an idiots show??

[@cokebear1337]

@@allenblevins7430 He made a fool of himself, contradicted himself repeatedly, and otherwise looked pathetic.

[@jeffreystone8974]

There's something so refreshing about a trusted source saying "fuck this evil company" that honestly just makes my heart warm

[@cokebear1337]

“trusted source” OMG you people are hilarious.

[@violeth2255]

You seemed to have added an unnecessary word there. All companies are evil.

[@mountainjews]

@@cokebear1337 Elon meat is on life support with you riding it so hard

[@butbunwin3107]

@Adam Conover what now? Twitter grow back up pal. Meta is zzz but twitter is better. Blue check actully earn money and also fire workers is correct choice lol.

[@MensHominis]

@@butbunwin3107 Fire workers until he doesn’t know anymore what’s working and what’s bugged, who’s in charge for what and whom he would have actually needed? Elon even fired (without telling him he was fired) and mocked a guy whom he shouldn’t ever have fired because of his contract which would cost him a ridiculous sum. 😂

[@emperorpalpatine6239]

Here after Elon replaced the cute Twitter logo with the generic “X”

[@chadkline4268]

Seems to be an infringement on Xwindow for Unix.

[@robl8285]

I’m dumb dummer than Elon where are my billions

[@Tortilla.Reform]

He was born into wealth, his dad owned an illegal emerald mine in an apartheid state

[@max2themax]

The bad thing is that truly... there is no way for these people to really fail. Even if their companies go under, they will be left with billions for a very comfortable lifetime.

[@DoritoBot9000]

It’s worst than than that. They will be bailed out, because no one in the multimillionaire class wants to see one of their own go under. “aristo-capitalism” , the antithesis of a meritocracy.

[@sethharasem-mitchell5368]

@Lind Morn lol, they only played by the rules the country set up, they didn't invent the rules, or decide them for that matter. Maybe Elon makes Twitter rules, but those rules aren't rights and responsibilities and shouldn't be confused with what you as a human being are actually allowed to do 😂

[@sethharasem-mitchell5368]

Not really. Their net worth isn't pocket cash, if their companies went under their money would evaporate. Having the money include the responsibility or trying to prevent it from disappearing at a moments notice. If the companies fail, they would most likely be left with relatively nothing - pay attention to the fact that I said 'relatively'.

[@ttt5205]

@@sethharasem-mitchell5368 Dang, I guess lobbying is just a conspiracy theory then.

[@sethharasem-mitchell5368]

@@ttt5205 never said it was 😂 all I said was that their right to lobby wasn't invented by them. They were impowered by a more fundamental system

[@mikew6554]

Adam is clearly no longer under any kind of censorship. I love it.

[@vappyreon1176]

Probably realized that the money from Adam ruins everything can last him his life, and decided to just rant about everything now

[@parlor3115]

@@vappyreon1176 Are you saying he's a...genius?

[@Cthulhuawake_]

I’m so here for it.

[@coolaswellasunique]

@@vappyreon1176 I’m sorry…. But Jolteon is better

[@maki9396]

Adam Unhinged 🙌🏾

[@What_do_I_Think]

We live in the age of frauds.

[@nah2454]

"oh and speaking of massive fuck ups" 🤣 man I paused the video to cook some food and when I resumed it I got hit with that line of gold

[@Indecisiveness-1553]

The worst part about Mark Zuckerberg being the face of his metaverse is that his avatar somehow looks less like a robot than he does!

[@SamanthaLaurier]

It DOES look more lifelike and human

[@RKingis]

Still looks like Jen Psaki too!!!!

[@SamanthaLaurier]

@@butbunwin3107 Oh look an Elon fanboy

[@dingusdingus2152]

Zuckerberg is a space alien

[@TheRexhim]

BUUURRRNNN!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@tmnt9001]

Even calling him PayPal Co-founder is kind of a stretch since he's only considered a co-founder because of a merger...

[@tjenadonn6158]

And one of the conditions of that meter was that he would have no part in day-to-day operations and none of his code would be used. He was a big dumb cash cow and nothing more.

[@TheAdamConover]

Great point! Thank you for the note.

[@AUG_XZABER]

He wasn't even good at coding either, his skills were self-taught, and the other programmers found him as an amateur. He didn't even know how to code in chunks! Other programmers saw him more of a nuisance. Edit: I meant to say "Chunking" and not "Code in chunks." My bad.

[@tullochgorum6323]

PayPal only took off once they forced Musk out of the MD job for incompetence. He rode on the coattails of other people's work and cashed in when eBay bought his shares.

[@tmnt9001]

@@AUG_XZABER I've heard that from another video, but - I'm a programmer and - I've no idea what "coding in chunks" even is... 😅 Is it something that people did in the 90's? That's why I didn't give much credence to that piece of information.

[@bozarts22]

Why would anyone give MORE $$$ to a billionaire?

[@user-ox6ip8ie7d]

I'm only just realizing that Mike Judge's movie Idiocy was actually a documentary.

[@gilleslesire4983]

Worst part about warning people about this is being scolded and laughed at for not getting it. It is so much easier to fool people than to make people realise they are being fooled.

[@Tricklarock]

...and it's a million times harder to get them to admit they had been fooled!

[@StephenGillie]

Parting fools with their money - it's like the fools line up for the honor, hoping for a good show, and treating the parting as an admission fee.

[@03817]

Thank you, I've been called stupid and jealous, people would roll eyes at me for saying what now starts to be a common knowledge. Being rich does not make you smart or intelligent.

[@paulgenes4856]

No one likes admitting they got screwed…

[@_.-.]

Pseudo intellectualism is on the rise about how twitter now sucks, don't know why. Must eb the change on moderation criteria.

[@RicardoMoralesMassin]

"When we think critically about these people, their power evaporates" is so good and so useful for life in general.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

unfortunately its not entirely true, capitalism still exists so their money has power regardless of how aware we are of their incompetence.

[@Telephonebill51]

You could abbreviate that real easy by just saying "When we think", at ALL...

[@blameitoncapitalism]

this line is so good, so sad it's not true. What gives them power isn't our perception, they install these perceptions in us because THEY ALREADY have power. They're powerful because they're capitalists. What's gives them power is theor money. We can all start thinking critically and literally nothings gonna change. They're still the ones who rule and own the means of production, they'll be fine even if we a hate them. We are still gona watch videos on KZbin even hating the owners, be on instagram or tik tik, buying from Amazon, watching Disney/warner/sony movies. We have no option under this system we don't own thisshit they own us. this guy in the video even addressed many times how they ruined many people's lives and they're just fine. They're fine. They're always fine. The only way to take power away from them, and saving the Earth they're destroying along the way, is not to stop thinking fondly of them or stop believing them like they're Tinkerbell or something. They stop having power when they stop having full ownership of work and means of production, including means of marketing, aka propaganda. The way out is to replace the system. Search ECOSSOCIALISM. it's our only way out.

[@verszka1678]

Are you talking about the leftist cultural and institutional establishment?

[@eiarromba7149]

Just imagine what more valuable things a person could've done with those billions of dollars.

[@emeraldspire3918]

Who's here after SBF just got 25 years in the slammer?

[@highspeedrailenjoyer1045]

It feels like Adam broke the chains which were on his character and became himself. This channel will go places.

[@SS-rc4rn]

yeah, because adam as we knew him in adam ruins everything was canonically killed by eric andre

[@thematiasmadness7010]

@@SS-rc4rn what happened to Eric Andre anyway?

[@TheAdamConover]

I AM FREE

[@oceanman_8370]

Eric Andre killing him caused him to be reborn like a phoenix

[@dirtydirtmcgogurt]

Scrolled down to say the same thing. I really like this more-aggressive/crass version of Adam.

[@NeganLucilleForever]

You don't have to be a genius to be rich - you just need to have geniuses working for you and take credit for their inventions. -Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zukerberg, etc

[@outdooradventuresja]

Real facts fa real

[@sebastienvondoom8615]

Elon being a modern day Edison while owning a company called Tesla would be a lot funnier if it wasn't so sad.

[@CrimmzZT]

I dont know about bill gates, dude seems to have created projects to litterally rid the world of diseases and parastites to the best of his ability, he still hasnt retired, maybe he is a shithead idk but hes done a damn good job foolin me so far, as for everyone else, musk better not fuck up space being an idiot jobs died so who cares and mark well I mean I dont use facebook but I wish he did a better job containing the stupidity there I am tired of talkin down family members from random conspiracy theories

[@sebastienvondoom8615]

@@CrimmzZT Most of Gates' humanitarian efforts are ridiculously inefficient and based more on eliminating disease in single regions rather than helping populations that are more effected by it. For a broad example if the Gates Foundation is presented with a location with 5% of the population is effected by polio vs a location where 40% is effected by polio they're more likely to help the 5% because eliminating polio in a region makes for better headlines than helping reduce it in others

[@spaceman6742]

😂 a rich person can have his wealth taken away any time only a genius with money can make real use of it, what a dumb comment.😂😂😂😂

[@blakksheep736]

News update: SBF has been found guilty on all 7 charges, could be looking at up to 115 years of prison.

[@joeminella5315]

It's so good to hear some real honest talk about the crap-verse we live in. All billionaires are parasites.

[@BordrKing]

I freaking died when you started screaming "JUST PUT A TRAIN DOWN THERE, ELON. IT'S CALLED A SUBWAY, GODDAMN IT" i was choking at work 😂😂😂

[@megadan66]

You do realize that the governor and his lackies in California are the reason the train didn't get built. oh, and the millions of taxpayer's monies they wasted.... Come on dude, stop peddling misinformation....

[@CokkiNetal]

Same!

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

There have been several ideas that people have claimed will revolutionize transportation, only to just be "trains, but worse".

[@delphinidin]

I just discovered this channel, and I can't tell you how inexplicably delighted I am to listen to something that's basically "Adam Ruins Everything Except He's Allowed to Say Motherf*ckers".

[@vgold4286]

Do discover his past, it’s pretty satisfying to see such a beta hipster wannabe taken down a peg or two on topics he clearly knows nothing about. Just type in Adam ruins everything gets owned.

[@JohnWilliams-nr3vi]

Well this aged well Twitter still up and running

[@JohnSmith-us9fv]

A sad world we live in 😢

[@TerrenceNowicki]

Small correction: Elon didn't really cofound PayPal. He cofounded X, which was absorbed by Confinity, and was kicked out of the merged entity for being incompetent and annoying before PayPal began operations as PayPal. Apparently, one of the cofounders of X left that company prior to the merger specifically because he hated having to interact with Elon. The only companies he's genuinely founded are zip2 and SpaceX, although he neither funds SpaceX (that's done by the government), nor does he run it (that's done by Gwenyth Shotwell), nor does he do anything else there besides get in the way, and zip2 was basically nothing more than a web page capable of downloading business info from the Yellow Pages into an online database.

[@Ridgey77]

Big correction: 187,000,000 * $7.99 * 12 = 18 billion Imagine making a video repeatedly calling everyone else a f**king dumbass and filling it with such basic errors. Lol.

[@arghjayem]

Yep, and he funded zip2 (at least partially) using his father’s money.

[@odorikakeru]

Also, I heard that zip2 was so badly coded that the company that bought it basically had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

[@okgotravel3761]

@@arghjayem And Elno's code was so bad it was called "hairball code" by the engineers that had to rewrite it when he was bought out.

[@charlesahweyevu]

@@Ridgey77 it's a monthly subscription. That's why it's 187m

[@Ashinle]

It never made sense to me why middle or lower class people would ever look up to the rich who screwed them over to get there. Great video Adam.

[@oldcowbb]

"we will someday be like him" mentality

[@raptorjesus6120]

Because they still believe in the myth that everybody has the potential to become the next ivory-tower billionaire--that it's really all about working hard and applying yourself. Their problem is that they still unquestioningly believe in the existence of meritocracy, and so they get duped into believing it's their own fault for not being rich. Meanwhile, in reality, it all boils down to luck and being born into a rich family. The poor and those on the lowest rung of society get squeezed for every penny they own while the super rich receive tax write-offs and government subsidies to expand their empires.

[@jwil4905]

That's because you have no drive or talent to make it yourself.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

Because "Capitalism is a meritocracy" and if we listen to their stories of how they got there and if we work our butts off, then we'll be rich like them too. In truth, the system is rigged and its pretty rare that the inventor gets rich off of their own work. Its the people who are already rich that buy up the rights and market it...if the inventor is lucky. If they're unlucky, they'll get sued by patent trolls who will happily steal their hard work and use it to get richer.

[@phamtuan1840]

They dont wanna see themselves as the working class, the "poor" one. They eat up the image from the media, from the riches that they might one day become one of them.

[@joshs3916]

I was always suspicious of these billionaires. “It’s too good to be true” rings true more and more every time a new person like SBF shows up

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

Pretty sure the "buy a banana" line was him claiming it would also become an online shopping service

[@PearlCityBeats]

"Mark's jank-ass metaverse is emptier than his childhood birthday parties" effffff me I'm losing it 😂

[@mmcdade6224]

OMG!! I almost choked at this.

[@noway8662]

Meatverse going up in smoke.

[@spudm6839]

Well, the haptics, graphics, audio, and other sensory interface tech is nowhere near ready to acheive what the metaverse (Super-VR/AR) is meant to do, which is to make more immersive Video Games and CAD software.

[@VSES-99293]

Lol I read that as he was saying it.

[@mattheweveland8335]

Ok, I love that you actually mentioned musk didn't invent tesla. That one has bugged the crap out of me for years. But he also wasn't really a co-founder of PayPal. He'd started a rival company-- with a site that literally didn't work. But, he was good at stealing investors, so the actual founders of PayPal just figured it was easier to buy his co and bring him on board.

[@sydneygorelick7484]

Oh good, for a second I thought Musk could've actually accomplished something for once in his life XD

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

I once had to explain to my parents, at length, that Elon Musk is NOT, as they thought, the grandson of Nikola Tesla, and the car company "Tesla" is NOT in fact a continuation of "The Nikola Tesla Company" founded in 1895. "But isn't that fraud?!" My mom proclaimed. "How is he allowed to use the name if he's got nothing to do with Tesla?"

[@BuuGz86]

Yo, his whole thing is saying that he has invented stuff that he has no clue how it even works lol..

[@superkingoftacos2920]

His companies keep trying to get rid of him because everything he touches files for bankruptcy.

[@mattheweveland8335]

@@sydneygorelick7484 his whole career has been like that, starting with zip2. They'd to bring in a family friend with more experience running a company just b/c it was such a mess. First thing he did was hire actual, professional coders to redo the code, b/c Musk's original was so amateurish is was a mess. Secomd thing was to bar Elon from supervising people b/c he was considered a nightmare boss. In the end it was that same family friend who helped them sell it, b/c he knew the ceo that bought it. Purchase was as a total disaster, basically had to write the whole thing off as a loss. But Musk got paid. Basically just used those profits as seed $ to buy his way into other ventures, insist he was a founder/ the one who came up with all the ideas.

[@BirdMoose]

Sometimes when something is obviously stupid it might actually be stupid instead of a sign of secret genius.

[@deathlytree434]

ITS CALLED A SUBWAY GODDAMNITT lololol dead x.x

[@williambowen8054]

"It's called a subway, Elon!" 😆 Thanks for screaming my thoughts.

[@Ariaelyne]

"But then the city wouldn't be buying a hundred or so Tesla's" or perhaps "I don't like Trains!" -Elon Musk, probably

[@big_sis_moon]

He might be too rich to know what that is

[@ChiotVulgaire]

He thinks it's a sandwich shop

[@joeblow9657]

Someone watched AdamSomething's channel

[@carlost856]

What about two taxi stations and risk of tunnel collisions instead?

[@demonicsweaters]

Elon didn't even co-found paypal either, he founded a company that merged with paypal that already existed.

[@thefirsttrillionaire2925]

Basically stole it like he did with Tesla

[@worldofdoom995]

Thats what founding means dumbass. If you take a few businesses together to make a new business guess what you made an entire new business.

[@elrti319]

Read up what a merger is. Adam Conover fans say the darnest things

[@modvavet]

@@elrti319 we know what a merger is. X merged with PayPal. PayPal already existed. Musk was not a founder. On a related note, his code for X was so ridiculously bad that the new programmers had to rewrite it from scratch.

[@elrti319]

@@modvavet Confinity merged with X. Also basically every PayPal member invested in Musks companies later on. So redicilously bad, they all invested in Tesla and SpaceX.....

[@medramonmasquedecendres2966]

Regarding the need of Twitter for money: anyone else noticed the amount of adds for crypto currencies?

[@Surya-uj7re]

Eight months on, SBF at least is facing serious jail time for his idiocy. And Elon's adventures with Twitter are at least an ongoing source of dark comedy.

[@oriattackwillperkins.1355]

I hate when someone's like "what are you talking about? He has to be smart because he's one of the richest people on the planet!" You see it all the time. An assumption that wealth makes someone smart in the same way might makes right.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

or also, that if you critisize him is because you're jealous of the money and just would love to have their ideas. SIIIGHHHHH

[@jasonb9407]

No, it's just that it takes some brains to literally develop electrical cars and spaceships... the assumption isn't that wealth makes or means someone is smart, it's their accomplishments.

[@kailiedraper3940]

@@jasonb9407 He didn't develop shit, owners aren't the ones who do the work, the WORKERS are. what you call "HIS" accomplishments, aren't his, the accomplishments ONLY go to the ones who actually did the things, and not just order people around. Anyone with a brain could replace elon musk, and there's no way around that fact.

[@zee-fr5kw]

No lottery winner has ever become a successful business man... Billionaire are Smart, extremely smart. But being business Smart doesn't make you smart in every aspect of life...

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

@@zee-fr5kw the thing is, they aren't rich because they are business smart either. That's just a small part. They had an amazing start (daddy money!), an amazing luck(perfect place, perfect time), and some barebone business sense. It is clear by how they are plummetting their ventures that they weren't very business smart to begin with...

[@lornenoland8098]

Even if they weren’t dummies, being brilliant at one thing rarely means being brilliant at everything or even anything else

[@evilsharkey8954]

Case in point: Ben Carson. The man is a brilliant surgeon, but he’s a lousy politician.

[@ejs6204]

💯

[@mc-lb9dk]

they are all jews. NEVER trust a jew!

[@sonicboy678]

@@evilsharkey8954 He really went and claimed the pyramids were built to _store grain._

[@Tricklarock]

Yup, they're called idiot savants.

[@bluicarys732]

Having never been on twitter, i was genuinely unaware until just now that people used it for anything other than being terribkw and was excited that Muak was accidentally helping the world, but it is unfortunate that people may have relied on it for things other than being monsters.

[@mrcleanisin]

Mickey Mouse! When the aliens come and say, "take me to you leader."

[@DarkkestNite]

One of the most painful parts of this as a recent engineering grad is seeing my friends and acquaintances who busted their asses to get positions at Meta making dystopianly cheerful posts on LinkedIn announcing that they're now "open to work" and "so grateful" for their few months at the mega-corp. They moved across the country and all they got was orientation and the fun new experience of being unemployed in one of the most expensive places to live in America. (And yeah some would argue that they sold their souls knowing how shitty the company is - but jesus christ, some of them are first gen college grads, and in any case those salaries are a hell of a thing to turn down when the pre-professional culture at a lot of schools begins and ends with FAANG companies)

[@TheAdamConover]

Their mistakes affect so many real people. So sorry for your friends.

[@cbpd89]

I'm sorry for all the employees laid off right before the holiday season, it sucks any time of year, but it's just insult to injury right now.

[@aweshumandy]

I got my job offer right before the pandemic. I was fortunate to be one of few in my class to not get an offer rescinded. I thought it was a bummer I didn't get the job at Google after the last interview. it was probably a blessing in disguise and now I'm not sure if I'll ever work for a FAANG company.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Lol. Pretty much every major corporation in America was that way. If you want to know about some really evil companies look overseas. I think Adam is a whiney loser. I draw the line at Elon he is actually quite brilliant to build Space X.

[@NamhadiNdemufayo]

I know a good reason to work at a FAANG. The mountain of debt you went into for your basically mandatory education. Anyone criticizing a new grad for work at one must live a very comfortable life.

[@naokitoiko2701]

Actually he didn't even co-found Paypal, he co-founded a competitor company that later merged with Paypal.

[@InfernosReaper]

Much to the dismay of the Paypal guys when they found out that said merger did nothing but cost them money with no discernible gain

[@rebelgordo2339]

No, he did merge with a competitor but that was not PayPal, but the merger created paypal. It is all a little confusing but he was a founder.

[@naokitoiko2701]

@@rebelgordo2339 Both the company and the wallet system Paypal already existed BEFORE they merged. The company was renamed Paypal a year AFTER the merge and AFTER Elon Musk was replaced as CEO.

[@jopi8138]

And as far as I know Elon got laid off after merging, because he was an insufferable idiot

[@naokitoiko2701]

The competitor had another name, but it was the one that had already developed the Paypal wallet. A year after the merger and after Musk had been fired was when they renamed the company after their main product.

[@EpicATrain]

I didn't know this channel existed. Subscribed in under one minute. Hearing Adam cuss people out... you got my heart right there.

[@johnunderwood9575]

Desperate people are fertile ground for scammers.

[@mariahanover9335]

I really like how Adam is yet another youtuber explaining how billionaires are ruining our lives, but instead of the usual monotone of video essays, he's freaking out and screaming like the rest of us should be. This is how you should react to fake geniuses destroying our livelihoods.

[@TheCostofAutism]

Unless you invested in FTX, or are a Facebook or Twitter employee, I don't see how these men are destroying livelihoods. So a few overprivileged Social Media A$$holes lost their jobs and some Rich Idiots investing in some Dumb Crypto lost some cash. How does this affect the rest of us again?

[@GreyFencer]

The difference of coming from a performance background vs an academic background.

[@innocentnemesis3519]

It’s incredibly validating. Like, I’m not the crazy one 🥲

[@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677]

He's an actor

[@austins161]

@@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677 An actor who speaks facts... a fActor if you will

[@joshyoung1440]

For the last decade, society has been gaslighting me about Elon Musk. Every time someone called an invention "his," or called him a brilliant inventor, I would say or think, "but... he never made anything... the scientists and engineers he keeps on payroll did..." to absolutely no effect or response. It got to the point where I wondered if I was the idiot who somehow didn't know about this famous man's many famous inventions. Yes, society gaslit me. And this video makes me feel so seen. Finally. Thank you Adam.

[@deep-fried-zombie699]

Hahaha!! if you ask someone to design something for you, you pay them to do it and you supply everything so they can do it, It’s your invention, The engineer has no claim. Sorry but your original thoughts were correct. Cya 😂

[@tureytayno3154]

That is the CEO M.O. Always taking the credit for other people's work, Josh.

[@tureytayno3154]

@@deep-fried-zombie699 You might have the legal rights for it but that doesn't mean you invented it.

[@pootube2024]

​@@deep-fried-zombie699 what did he invent?🤡

[@KyleGD]

​@@deep-fried-zombie699 elon aint shit without the engineers he underpays 🤡

[@simspawn]

Only watched some of Adam ruins everything and liked it. Now that you aren't censored, I love it.

[@Frostbite08]

It's only been three weeks since this video was released, and it's already aged like fine wine.

[@michaelbellingham719]

adam conover will try to sell you his digital investment business while belittling all the other guys who do this..only reason adam will contact you here on yt. my advice is give him a miss and do a runner. guy is an arrogant ass. bitcoin is here to stay, though adam can stuff the crypto right up you know where.. cheers mate Reply

[@MrPooleish]

The most infuriating part of all these idiots' screwups is that they'll all be fine while the actual workers who actually made the money will suffer the consequences.

[@strayiggytv]

And even worse a percentage of those worker will still simp for him. Because the secondary part of this is people are so allergic to admitting they were duped that they minimize the damage these grifting PoS do. If everyone victimized by these men all came forward there'd be so many we'd have to admit as a society that just because your rich doesn't mean your good but the temporarily embarrassed millionaires always fight against their best interest because they care more about looking strong then being it.

[@nodopamine6243]

Lol “workers.” You mean adult daycare. It’s good he weeded out the weak within the company, and it’s good these tech companies are being screwed. I only want to work with those who are driven and competent.

[@DracoMagnius]

@@strayiggytv There are way too many people in this country that would rather be dead than wrong and it shows.

[@sadlfjasdfacv]

I've got a philosophy for you: Marxism!

[@ronrolfsen3977]

@@nodopamine6243 The comment are entertaining. It makes it sound like the workers who just want a healthy work live balance are the pampered ones and the millionaires son who got gotten billions from the government just to keep his companies running is not.

[@megamanmegamanmegamanmegam8725]

He is also removing the block button on twitter!

[@Notllamalord]

Fun fact: the code that musk wrote for PayPal was so bad when the company got bought it had to be totally rewritten.

[@commonsenseskeptic]

Correction. You’re describing zip2. Musk had exactly nothing to do with the creation of PayPal.

[@neoqwerty]

@@commonsenseskeptic Me reading this: "tf is zip2, oh god did Musk also try reinventing zip files" [google] "tf is zip2's customer base, who wants to go through a third party to do advertising in _1995_ ???"

[@jonathanlevinson1285]

@@commonsenseskeptic zip2 was a huge part of the creation of paypal

[@rG1vZ]

Did musk even wrote any of the code? Or just hired someone to do it?

[@The93Vector]

No. Zip2 sucked and Musk saw the writing on the wall so before PayPal could run him over, he convinced them to merge. They ended up booting him out of the company after the merger because he sucked so bad.

[@candybracelets]

I think the biggest issue is that an idea that seems dumb because you aren't smart enough to comprehend it is indistinguishable from one that seems dumb because it is dumb. A lot of people assume because billionaires were right once that their next idea is likely to be a winner too, and that simply isn't the case, they're just as capable of coming up with shitty ideas as the rest of us.

[@jeffreydallas6047]

Everyone who believes this guy is dumb. Two of those guys scammed their way to where they are. They used them to shed Elon in a bad light because they are scumbags. Throw an apple into a bag of rotten ones and throw some dirt on it all of them look like shit. This is liberal bullshit because they lost their echo chamber. Yes Twitter was a dumb buy but they're all pissed about it because he took their lawn and pissed all over it. Every business ever runs deep in the red the first year. Oh and this guy reads scripts. Someone else wrote this for him.

[@animorte9790]

True, but are we just as capable of brilliant ideas? Sure! But most of us don't have the motivation or funding to make it happen.

[@lindgrenland]

We're all (more or less) clueless humans who stumble around not really knowing shit as individuals. Think your doctor is some sort of authority? No, he/she just goes around trying not to fuck you up. Think tech billionaires are authorities in their fields? Nah, they stumbled onto the right circumstances and momentum. Think authorities are authorities? No, they're comprised of individual humans who have almost no idea what they're doing. No one has any business wielding influence and power, because they're not "enough better" than others. We just wing it based on our circumstances, and if it works in a grander scheme it's because the world has to go on regardless of the outcome of flawed individual actions. The collective makes it work. A few lucked out, some people kinda lucked out, a lot of people are OK, and some people pulled the short straw, but none of them are ACTUALLY as much an authority at what they do as people in general believe (especially not me as I'm crafting this philosophy). (I know this isn't very nuanced and fully thought out, but that's what's fun's)

[@balloney2175]

Like the former president who stole classified documents, he said he has 10 billion which many people believe.

[@galacticinfochine4580]

"capable" but unlikely

[@cori1302]

Complexity does not equal genius.

[@funfair-bs7wf]

This is the first time I ever think about giving money to a youtuber... after 2 minutes watching the video.

[@hugh_jasso]

At my old job, I got promoted into the "office class" and had an epiphany one day during a big wig / owners conference meeting that was going nowhere... We were all winging it, lol. Nobody had a clue and it was the funniest damn thing to witness. Every meeting after that became a game to hunt for the few productive ideas that would actually accomplish something. But it did teach me the office politics of hiding my cringe reaction from stupid bosses.

[@sinnsage]

this really reminded me of the film Sorry to Bother You - if you haven’t seen it please do go give it a watch! it’s about many things but you will relate to at least that part of it. (also a brilliant film)

[@SiaAbderezai]

Everyone commenting in this thread either works in sales or lying and trying to sell you on something. Now shhh, The Emperor is coming and he’s got new robes to show.

[@JackSparrow-re4ql]

The funniest thing to see is the diaper baby game influencers who play at business. Its comical to see these half wits sit down and pretend to be high flying entrepreneurs, trying hard to copy idiots like Musk. Their board meeting speeches and mission statements are true comedy gold; like a six year old babbling business terms.

[@PeterKoperdan]

The shocking fails I witnessed while briefly working at IBM were eye-opening. Corpo never again 🤮

[@oliviatiwaladeadedokun2929]

Lol...I know what you mean

[@e.pluribusunum7916]

I think it's time the world wakes up to the fact that most rich people got there either through luck or a lack of ethics, or in the case of most CEOS - both.

[@wanderer10k]

@@tylersinton3095 He's not going to shag you.

[@gregkropotkin3982]

@@tylersinton3095 you smoking crack, m8?

[@kathryntitus9647]

I hear you, it's amazing that most people don't understand the whole point of capitalism is exploitation, and more egregious and immoral forms of it are allowed to exist as time passes. That was the whole point of citizens united, to make white collar crime even more rewarding for the perpetrators and even more damaging to the working class.

[@Rouk524]

@@tylersinton3095 lmao Yeah right, tgese elon musk worshipers crack me up

[@Gabryal77]

It's safe to assume that anyone who has a billion dollars, did not get there without at least one murder

[@jdperry1917]

Closing words are damn near word for word what I've been saying for years but when I said them as a federal candidate all I got was abuse, no one wants to hear the truth, they want to believe the lie, it's safer, easier & more comforting.

[@Zeton-THESEEKER]

Are you enjoying your new Twitter X A>I> Prison with minimized interactions? I know I am not. LOL!

[@robsolf]

You don't have to be a genius as a CEO, you just have to be convincing to wealthy people.

[@magiccarpet9172]

Lol. Spoken like a true loser.

[@snupjeve]

it worked for Elizabeth Holmes

[@tjenadonn6158]

And wealthy people are easy to fool

[@AlexAustralis]

Which is good for CEOs because wealthy people are often fucking idiots themselves who are only in the financial position they are because they inherited or were given big parts of their wealth by their parents.

[@Auroraisvibing21]

I'd say more like you just need to hire actually smart people and they can do a good job while you take the credit

[@g_man2177]

Not only are those billionaires are idiots, but people are gullible, ignorant, and what is worse is those people will defend them till the end.

[@christopherregan1654]

I hate the fact that people worship these guys only because they have boatloads of money. Just because you have that much money doesn't mean you're actually intelligent. There's lots of millionaires who inherited that money and they're some of the dumbest rocks on the planet.

[@kellywalker1664]

I think it's because we're indoctrinated to behold wealth and power with superstitious awe. We can't worship monarchs as much now, so we run to these "great men". It's a broken record that us primates need to get past if we want to survive the coming decades.

[@FTZPLTC]

The sad thing is that some people who bet on them do actually know that they're idiots. It sounds absurd. The best way I've seen it explained was that, if you give people a coin flipping exercise, and you tell them that the coin will land on heads 60% of the time... after a while, they'll start betting on tails. Even though they know that the right course of action is to keep betting on heads, they'll take a risk just to feel like they're injecting their personality into the thing - because just playing the odds is boring I guess. I think that's why people who definitely should know better get convinced to invest in these moonshot projects and idiot billionaires - because it lets them feel like they're not just going through the motions and picking the obvious safe option.

[@g_man2177]

@@Sigmapyrosity you have just confirmed my orginal statement.

[@RobinTheMetaGod]

Grow up, musk is justified.

[@Raghetiel]

And just as with zombies, there's enough of stupid, old, slow, or unprepared people for them to feast on

[@unknownuser1684]

I agree with the whole paying for checkmarks thing. I saw someone pretending to be George Floyd and they said guess who’s back

[@andykerr1263]

The amount of people who will weirdly try to take a metaphorical bullet for these guys is so astounding

[@tjenadonn6158]

Especially considering that the people they're defending would in all likelihood hunt them for sport were it legalized.

[@dclucky2477]

I am absolutely fascinated by this phenomenon as well. Fanboys will literally go through insane illogical loops and bend over backwards to justify their behavior.

[@capy3759]

literal too

[@mpazinambao2938]

@@dclucky2477 so much so I was almost convinced by a video that was saying he has a 10yr plan and this is 'all according to his plan'. He sounded so sure, so sure! I was almost convinced going 'maybe its some crazy plan'!

[@mpazinambao2938]

@@capy3759 😂

[@Qba86]

Let's also keep in mind that when "old school" tech companies, like Bell Labs, Intel or Xerox were coming up with truly innovative stuff (more often than not in close cooperation with the public sector), their CEOs weren't celebrities and earned only a small fraction of what modern tech moguls do.

[@TheGridX]

You are comparing a typical CEO who is a hired employee of a company to a founder of a company to which they are also the CEO. This is a major difference and accounts for their significant wealth. These companies wouldn’t exist without the founders and their wealth is 100% tied to the success or failure of the business.

[@Zeromaus]

Those CEOs were severely undervalued and underpaid.

[@Qba86]

@Lind Morn I'm not praising, just pointing out that ridiculously high earnings (and celebrity status) of contemporary CEOs don't contribute to innovation, as some of their fanboys claim.

[@paigeconnelly4244]

Also, Bell Labs - a subsidiary of a private for-profit business - has won NINE Nobel prices in Chemistry and Physics. That's more than most univerisites!

[@Qba86]

@@paigeconnelly4244 Just keep in mind that Bell was given monopoly on telecommunication in the US, along with enormous profits that came with it. So the research conducted at Bell Labs was a way of giving back to the society. Still, the contrast is stark when compared to modern "privatizing profits and socializing losses" business model of most corporations.

[@Number6_]

Greed makes idiots of millions with billions. While I would never trust an extremely rich person. Most of them got rich by luck. Right time, right idea, right place with the right amount of money. No real intelligence. Just no real competition either. They didn't have to be smart just ruthless enough to hold on to power, once they got noticed.

[@hardstylelife5749]

I’ve a question: how can Musk have so much time for internet gossip, participating in podcasts, meeting and private lifestyle? Skilled at hiring people or use a doppelgänger?

[@pkwiva]

I'm loving the unfiltered R-rated version of Adam. I'm so glad he's doing this new format and I'm eager for more!

[@sharon94503]

Just hoping YT's new algorithm doesn't ding his channel...they're dropping the hammer on cursing.

[@davidgilbert8614]

I agree with you 100%. This was a fantastic video.

[@prodigalpriest]

No argument from me. 🤷‍♂️ I pray he can continue down this path.

[@SeanStrife]

Minor correction on the Elon/PayPal stuff... he didn't even found PayPal; he was involved in a company that would later get bought out by the company that would create PayPal (that he had nothing to do with). Other than that, you pretty much nailed the story of Elon Musk. So his whole ploy of being the founder of PayPal is a rinse-and-repeat of what he did with Tesla... BEFORE he did it with Tesla.

[@mattmogan492]

Adam ruins his corporate sugar coating… I love it!!!!

[@christopherpardell4418]

Additionally, he was made CEO of PayPal, but the board fired him after only 6 months for gross incompetence.

[@Zeromaus]

What he did with Paypal and Tesla was genius, and I'd like to see you or anyone else replicate that level of success.

[@wraithflaire1639]

@@Zeromaus being shrewd and being a genius are two different things

[@caseyw.6550]

@@Zeromaus lol! Sucking dick for billionaires and ain't even getting paid. Sad.

[@roko650]

I dont think it fair to put zuckemberg and musk in same busket with SBF.

[@realtruth529]

No, they a way more professional scammers.

[@dramaqueen4640]

Are those "dumbs" in charge indeed or they are being used?

[@Noah_Levy]

Letting the internet centralize around a handful of websites was always going to end in a disaster like this. It's time to take enforcement of our anti-trust laws seriously and break these firms up. And bring back Net Neutrality while we're at it.

[@sea_triscuit7980]

@Lind Morn yeah the left is the problem...

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

I don't think there's much an option as to what "the internet" centralizes around, being that "the internet" you speak of is really _us_ , the users. We made Twitter what it is, same as facebook and now TikTok. And on that note, there's clealry competition already in this space. One controversial instance was Facebook's purchase of Instagram, which people believed was essentially monoplization, to buy out what was a major competitor. But the facts are much more complicated. Instagram was itself a very small company who's userbase was exploding and actually couldn't possibly scale resources to expand on it's own very easily. They essentialy would want to be bought by a bigger company, and this is common with a lot of small startups that find sudden success.

[@jcbvortex22]

I have been saying this about these billionaires for 20 damn years!

[@stopthecrazyguy9948]

I'll see your 20 and raise you 30. 50+ years ago 1 million dollars was considered filthy rich.

[@jcbvortex22]

@@stopthecrazyguy9948 well played

[@Rig0r_M0rtis]

@@piglover3719 You and me both. Idiots would call us jealous but it's not Musk who makes the world go round. The workers do.

[@CheerfullyCynical829]

I'm not really business-minded, I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body, and I am not a huge risk-taker. If I attempted to start my own business, I'm pretty sure I would be bankrupt and full of regret within a year. Capitalism is an *ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC* system for people who possess the aforementioned qualities. But for people like, say, me, a software engineer, who will always be in a cubicle or at my home desk working for somebody else, making a decent-but-not-amazing salary, somebody please tell me why I should be so in love with capitalism?

[@jcbvortex22]

@@CheerfullyCynical829 better to play hard, then work hard. Life is short, enjoy as much as you can. No sense in working until you have a few good years left. Being self-sustaining should be our priority, not relying on systems of control, made by wealthy elites long before we came along.

[@UseroneGaming]

9:00 “That shit (Facebook’s ‘Meta’ VR) looks like Sims for PS2” That’s insult to the Sims.

[@yourlocalfestivefurry354]

I'm so fucking glad that you're fully uncensored now hearing unfiltered but well articulated rage about billionaires is amazing

[@ChristoKiwi]

I work in tech and have had an incredible list of CEOs that match this pattern of private school privilege and rich parents giving them a head start. Starting companies and being so full of shit that some people believe it. The smartest boss I have ever had came from nothing. This all rings true to me! 😂

[@crondog]

One point of contention: this isn't the first time Mark is trying to invent his way out of a bad situation. Because he hasn't invented anything. It's just VRChat but worse in every possible way.

[@plutherus]

He didn't even invent this. As far as I can tell, everything in the "metaverse" is just expanded from what he got when he bought Oculus a few years ago.

[@dynamicworlds1]

What's more pathetic, Zuckerberg's "metaverse" or the bottom of the barrel of anime fans who thought Elon was going to make Sword Art Online and catgirls real? (I'm not making that up, unfortunately)

[@jfbeam]

Didn't Oculus already have something better than this? Like a decade+ ago. (it does look very much like Wii-Chat)

[@Tethloach1]

Isn't it wrong to question the most succesful, most productive people? What you earn is a 1 to 1 ratio of how loved, trusted, productive, moral, and intelligent. Money is true meritocracy, self made people move up.

[@musiciseverything120]

@@Tethloach1 I'm really hoping you're being sarcastic.

[@Brorca]

Adam Connover has become truly powerful, now that he can say "fuck."

[@dare2win215]

Gee, this is 'Adam Ruins Everything' on the iconoclastic juice! I'm the idiot who didn't think to search him until today. So, glad I did. I've missed this energy. Definitely investing

[@skyrender86]

It really sucks that there's a portion of us engineers back in 2010s who first hand found out elon musk has mental impotence, but no one would believe us. Now that it's finally coming out, thank goodness.

[@GenerationX1984]

It's like the Dilbert comics. People think the boss is smart because he's the boss but he's dumb. And the engineers who work for him are smart enough to know just how dumb he actually is.

[@Wa7edmenalnass]

Also we in finance loved to mock him every time his name would come up, the numbers simply don't add up, unless he has god as an investor.

[@drennyvision6141]

Sorry it took 10 years

[@willguggn2]

The Elon simps have always been way overrepresented because of their massive engagement.

[@sugarpuffextrem]

atleast you can now speak freely on twitter

[@supercattelephone]

The best part is that once people got banned from Twitter they just disputed the charge with their credit card company and got the 8 bucks back.

[@erkinalp]

What? Payment never arrived Twitter?