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Who is doing the most good in the world, and how? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if the unknown person on your street who fosters kittens is a great example, I'd love to hear about them too.

Mr. Rogers told me to look for the helpers in times of trouble. Tell me about your favorite helpers!

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[+] -33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This but unironically. Tesla put electric vehicles on the map. Starship will change humanity forever, and Neuralink is already helping patients.

He's not perfect (but hey, Von Braun was worse), but at least he's actually doing stuff that matters.

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  • [โ€“] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I get your point, but he didn't create Tesla, he bought it (as far as I know). So it could be argued that these things would be happening with or without him. But with him, he's giving electric cars (at least, that brand) a bad name.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Given the amount of his personal wealth he put into Tesla and the financial tricks he pulled to get further funding (if what is said in Elon Musk by Ashley Vance is true), then it seems likely that Tesla would have gone bankrupt without him. Maybe any rich person could have done it, and electric cars would always eventually be on the trajectory they are now, but he was the rich person that actually did it. He should get some credit for that, I think. But it is right that he didn't create Tesla, and he should definitely stop implying that he did, I agree with that.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    If he pulled his funding like he did with OpenAI, they would have found funding somewhere else (like OpenAI)

    The only thing he does is invest in all manners of companies, and once one of them becomes successful, he pretends like he is a founder and sues the actual founders if they disagree. Or he pulls funding because they don't want him to be the CEO.

    Guy is an egomaniac that only invests to make it seem he is a cool guy on the internet.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 2 years ago

    Back then they had no cars at all though.

    But yeah he's not personally building the rockets and engines, but he's still far, far better than 99% of politicians and oligarchs who are just using the same money to go to Epstein's island etc.

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