Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why you should NEVER believe Elon Musk! (part Deux)" video.

You're just jealous because it didn't occur to you to choose to be born to parents' that own an emerald mine. That's not on him, that's on you.
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It's not the public that are being particularly naive, what morons are still willing to lend him money at this point? All he seems to do is pop up online and do some trolling, issue a ridiculous statement and make the company then struggle to follow through in order to avoid being hit by regulatory fines for having no intention of doing it. Tesla struggles a lot due to these dumb statements that Musk makes and in many cases, they don't even have the plans in place before he makes the assertions.
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@Isomnophilia I think early on the things he was saying and doing weren't so obviously scams. But, if you've read up on him, he didn't found PayPal, he was part of the founding of a different online financial service that merged with PayPal and all his initial money came from his parent's emerald mine. What we've seen play out over the years since is more or less the inevitable conclusion of being born on 3rd base and being surrounded by people that are willing to go along with the insanity no matter how ridiculous things are. The fact that any of what he promises happens is mostly coincidental and the byproduct of the few smart people that he hasn't sent packing for showing up near his desk at the wrong time of the day.
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