said that fewer people should start careers in finance and law and instead focus on innovation.
"In recent years, billionaire has become a pejorative, like that's become a bad thing, which I don't think makes a lot of sense in most cases," Musk said. "So this is both a compliment and a criticism," Musk added. "We should have fewer people doing law and fewer people doing finance and more people making stuff."
Sooo true!!!
Amen.
Musk, Gates, Bezos & Cuomo are the four horseman of the apocalypse
good point .. stability over the unknown .. and now look where we are
absolutely right！
I don’t know what’s worse: that an innovator suggested to America that we should dictate what professions people should have, or that there are so many morons in this thread who agree with them.
Very much agreed
He isn’t lying! Great talents are being wasted because they don’t get the big $.
For the 1st time I agree
Need engineers and they should get paid better and have more say in our future than lawyers and politicians
Where were you all these years ... That's exactly how the system is.
Perfect Maoist-Chinese revolutionary thinking. It's the financiers that put him in business, and the lawyers that protect his business from being taken out from under him. Idiot...
Your profession is useless. It accounts to nothing but Monopoly money being manipulated on a computer screen. No actual goods and services come from your industry, yet they receive bailouts first before mainstreet
He is right about some things
That's idiotic
Oh my, yes. Many lawyers and most CPAs are parasites on society. And the war machine produces nothing that makes for a robust economy — it just churns vast amounts of money to keep people employed. .elonmusk
And less feds raid avarage ppl for money ease in future
He’s not wrong
Also, ObamaGate
Frauds like Musk wouldn’t exist without people in finance.
His observation is right. But his suggestion may be controversial.
Too many smart thieves go into finance and law
Agreed
I have only one shirt made in the US . Jobs for people making stuff are not in the US and people going to law or finance are free to look for whatever job makes them good money . The market is the ultimate decider if 'they' live and let it live , whoever the f**k 'they' are .
Yet few people have single handedly created as much work for finance and legal sector as elonmusk. More people making stuff, leads to more finance and law gigs.
This guy is a genius, and i cant stress that enough. But the fact that he has so much infrastructure built in California shows he should have had a couple more tax accountants on his team.
Or going into medicine
It’s called Russian Federation. Fewer people doing law (the “few” making laws are only the people in power) and fewer people doing the finance (corrupt payoffs). The people “making stuff” would be the oppressed.
LulaEDUcate This is the least provocative thing he’s said in quite a while.
He talks too much! We need fewer words from this guy.
Completely agree
At least I accord with him at this point.
“Making stuff” happens for low wages overseas. Smart people want to make money.
that what china is for! we love slave and child labor! especially nike and apple
I disagree. I think the smart people ie high IQ go into the hard sciences. The frat boys, who spend college partying, go into law and finance. Different skill sets and willingness to hurt others.
Hope you have hired some smart lawyers and kick some ass against those politicians in the Bay Area that are wasting my hard earned tax dollars-unfortunately Cali Doesn’t realize they can’t print money like the Feds and that the public entities are hit hardest at end of recession
Elon - like all disruptors - discovering their fly-by-night shit show has no history of dealing with a business cycle. Now in their very first business downturn they are crying victim of the system. Yeah … it's called experience.
Smart enough to make the laws and smart enough to get around them.. with money in the middle
yes, but not until the system is such that it is not MORE lucrative to be a lawyer, accountant, banker versus scientist, engineer .
making stuff is definitely they way but making stuff profitability even harder and more important
what an awesone dickhead ..!! elonmusk
He is completely right. As usua.
He's right
Well, he's right.
Good pic though. A bit forward in the video would've been better.
Dad money!!!
Then who is going to by Tesla?
Yep
He plagiarized that from someone
Splits, Splits.
And we should have financial media/news organizations which call out the chicanery of Wall Street and the Fed, instead of fawning over them like little schoolgirls.
🤣
Agree Elon is right
Ahhh....so the MSM partisan smear of Elon Musk begins. Take his comments out of context to allow for a separate framing. Testing the waters on the response. Let me by the first to say 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
He's right as usual.
He literally started out and became a billionaire by going into finance.
Launching cars to the sun?
How ignorant is the majority of people in the United States when we have so many laws no one knows the total amount and everyday lawmakers are just thinking up new shit... Everybody likes that easy money sitting in an office or behind a computer. This is Corporate America now...
I agree! Because this what happens when we have more lawyers than creators...
Both law and finance insure production items will last ... quality over quantity protection for our natural resources?!☀️🥀
He's such an ass
Tesla had better be up tomorrow morning. I'm dumping 2,000 shares ASAP. Half I've been holding since Obama recommended it almost a decade ago at 1/10th of the price. I just can't get behind him anymore. He's his own worst enemy.
Clearly someone who doesnt understand what people are paid, especially if ur in a free market.
That's where all the money is. We live in a capitalist society Elon, cant buy your flaming death traps without money
Right!
too many people worship money. we need to help fellow men and women for generations
One of the few statements of his I agree with...
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Abolish government and the Federal Reserve, then more people would be making stuff.
We need the opposite here in libya
Yes...we should all live our lives according to the teachings of a rich drug addict who lives on other people's money.
Get the phock out of California, tech scum!
Plenty of 'quants' have degrees in physics and science. They make more money playing with other people's money on Wall Street.
this is very true!
Stuff is more important than peoples lives?