The morons and the moron-wranglers are very, very upset about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. In their ideology, success is self-evidently bad. He’s very successful, so therefore, he’s very bad. Remember that socialists are collectivists. It must be about the many, never the one, because they want to be the voice of the many, and an uppity one is an obstacle to their domination. That’s why they hate individual success. Of all the obnoxious lies Barack Obama told, perhaps the most poisonous was his “You didn’t build that!” lie. What Obama was attempting to do was deny the possibility of individual success. That allows him to sidestep the problem of individual property rights, because they want your property—property is power. If you didn’t build that, it’s not yours. If you didn’t build that, then we had to have built that, and therefore we own it and can do what we want with it. And by “we,” they mean themselves and the rest of the nomenklatura of the leftist ruling class. It’s rhetorically dispossessing you not only of your property, but of the possibility of individual greatness.

That’s why they must deny that Elon Musk is great, as he demonstrably is by any honest and reasonable standard. I mean, what did Elon Musk ever do to deserve ownership in multiple successful companies, other than start them and grow them and make them successful? That could’ve been anybody. He just got lucky, unlike all the people who are green with envy at his green. Or he was given it. Or something something Elon didn’t build that. It’s not fair that he be successful, while his self-evident moral superiors aren’t. See, the reason they didn’t start an electric car company and a rocket company and a satellite Internet company and a prosthetics company and so on and so on is because mysterious forces conspired against them to strangle their genius in the cradle. They’re better than this Elon Musk guy, who only enriched thousands of people and improved the lives of billions because of........

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