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"Inspiring and empowering" aka he's rich and gonna get richer, nothing unique to the man himself. Those smart people could do leauges better out of a coperate environment - he doesn't even let non-teslas park in their parking lot as their Cali research locations. Lotta empowerment there
So why didn't they?
Cause we live in capitalism? Without capital how you gonna do shit, imagination?
In what sort of social order would these people thrive in your opinion?
Tbh I've spend time thinking on this, and realistically the only solution I could find is through mathematical optimization - describing it through and example, we've definetly killed hundreds of Einstein's in Africa simply working for the west - we have the ability to provide food to every single person in the world, and certainly the technology to educate them.
If we simply offered everyone an equal chance to learn, and the ability to focus on "thinking", instead of starvation, bills, poverty etc. naturally the best would rise to the top and statistically we'd have insanely better odds of finding smart people than the essentially lottery we got going on now. (Look at yee old days, population directly correlates with technological innovation, never one person being "built different" )
In our current society you can see this isnt happening everywhere, everyone knows you got to 'know someone' to rise to the top. A great example of being the film infustry; well known actors are somehow able to pop out amazing acting children, entirely uncorrelated to their connections right?
Musk is a beautiful example of this, cause he can hardly stop himself bursting at the seems with cockyness - and he was risen like he was gods child, so understandably he believes that, but he's simply hooked on the dopamine rush he gets from making obsene amounts of money, soley because the exponential growth of ones wealth (and take a wild guess at how hr got anywhere with PayPal; hint hint it's genetic). I honestly see him as no better than a common crack addict, but for some reason we decided he should have the power of a small country, certainly a dangerous thing in an addicts hands.
Sorry this got a little long, but Tbh this is the society I hope for some day!