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Medium’s Leading Writer Is So Far Up Elon Musk’s Bowels, Not Even a Colon Cleansing Would Work At This Point
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Elon Musk is the patron saint of all self-help writers.
And this is especially true on this platform and elsewhere.
Billionaires are the reason why you have every man and his dog writing umpteen articles about self-help; even after the tumultuous events of 2020 and 2021.
These modern day sophists have made it their life’s mission to convince humankind that billionaires are the best thing since sliced bread. That these oligarchs are at the heart of everything positive about humanity, conveniently forgetting their outsize role in climate change.
The notion that the wealthiest people on this planet owe their success to their innate ability and unique skills is the selling point of the self-help industry.
That Errol Musk’s immense wealth, which came from the ownership of the emerald mines in the Republic of South Africa when Black labour was heavily subsidized, was what gave his world famous progeny the much needed head start in life is of no consequence at all.
That Bill Gates’s mother pulled a few strings in order for him to work at IBM, which enabled him to amass a fortune with Microsoft is something…