• StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
    41·
    9 hours ago

    While he’s definitely not the genius he makes himself out to be, he would be still in the tech space, qualified in IT or at the very least basic programming. Try to make a quick buck with some crypto stuff and be that guy you hear about with all the ideas but none of the skills to do anything about it.

    And depending on his luck of who he can fool he has a chance to make it and be rich still. Its just not as rich as he is now with a head start on life.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I think your somewhat right.

      He would definitely be making millions via crypto rug pulls. The only reason he doesn’t do it now is he has so much money, that it’s easier to just hype a coin like Doge

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
    522·
    19 hours ago

    In his mom’s basement, in cum-stained sweatpants, sitting hunched over in front of a cheap oversized monitor hooked up to an underpowered desktop PC with lots of LED, trolling on /b/ and /pol/ and jerking off to pokeporn.

      • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
        11·
        17 hours ago

        As a matter of fact, yes.

        I didn’t make all that up on the spot. I already had the visual image in mind because that really is how I visualize him.

        And I didn’t even try to do it. When he first bought Twitter and started trolling professionally, I just found myself visualizing him doing it, and before I knew it, I had this crystal clear image of him sitting in front of a desktop PC on a rickety particle board desk in a dank basement room with white paint over concrete and green shag carpeting, lit only by the glow from a cheap monitor, wearing gross stained sweats and a hoodie, hunched over a grimey keyboard and occasionally giggling to himself.

        I keep trying to visualize the more likely reality for a billionaire of some sort of extremely custom multi-monitor setup in the center of a purpose-built room, but it just won’t stick.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    422·
    19 hours ago

    Statistically?

    Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.

    He’s very autistic, but if he weren’t a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn’t be there. (Although being from South Africa, he’d probably still be a massive Racist)

    This means there’s a 93.4% chance he’d be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Eh. There’s plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he’d been given unlimited internet access without also being a public figure).

        And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don’t run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.

        • skrlet13
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Isn’t he a furry already? Didn’t he share a ratboy meme or something?

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    15 hours ago

    Look at the way he behaves.

    People who behave like he behaves without money don’t go anywhere in life because no one wants them to be around. He’d be working at a packing plant somewhere. Or a fast food counter. I say that because the guy isn’t actually intelligent. He isn’t some engineer that designs cars or rockets. He just bought the companies with the people who actually do that. And it doesn’t take a genius to have a lot of money and invest it in safe bets. Look at Donald Trump. Guy is a moron but it’s pretty easy to take daddy’s money and buy/sell real estate. Musk would still look like the Gollum he looked like before he got REALLY rich and paid to make himself look different. He’d be alone, poor, and sad. I mean, he’s clearly sad now because no one who’s happy behaves the way he behaves. He’s lonely because the only people who interact with him are people that want something out of him. He ain’t poor though, so he’s got that going for him.

    Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is, so this is all assuming that his personality is the same without the lifelong money, which it wouldn’t be. In a way, the born rich thing was kind of a curse for him because he never got to become a real boy or a real man.

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
      61·
      13 hours ago

      Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is,

      Musk wasn’t always as completely off his hinges as he is right now, and I feel like at least half of the reason he got as bad as he did, is because he is constantly, 24/7/365, surrounded by yes men who do nothing but say how great and smart he is (and he has the money and power to ensure this always remains the case)

      Like he was always a bigot and kind of a dumbshit, but he didn’t become unhinged until a few years back.

      Which is why I think a hypothetical middle-or-lower-class Elon Musk would be just.

      … A mediocre internet user. Holds some bigoted opinions. Gets into fights on webforums and social media. Has a low-level job in tech doing something no one cares about for a company everyone hates.

  • kabi@lemm.ee
    25·
    19 hours ago

    web dev, still unsure of the difference between var and let