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Are you suggesting that being born into wealth negates a person from being successful in their own right?



Doesn’t negate, but it is such a huge boost that it is basically playing the tutorial vs on hard mode.

And regardless of wealth, Elon’s only actual contribution was paypal, which is.. well, paypal (I quite literally left some money in that because it was so scammy I couldn’t even rescue it by donation..), and funding tesla (not inventing anything!). The latter is pretty much impossible without some form of privilege.




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