> self-made billionaire industrialist

We've reached levels of billionaire worship that would make any court jester of the 1400's blush

fragmede 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

An off-the-cuff four word description on an Internet forum definitely exceeds the level of worship from a court jester in the 1400s that had to dress up in costume and dance at the command of a king, lest their head get cut off.

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vessenes 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well jesters are supposed to call out the BS, yes?

That said, How do you (accurately) describe Ellison?

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danparsonson 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Greedy, ruthless and well-connected? These people are hardly genuises.

	▲	quesera 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Greedy, ruthless and well-connected? Sure, but that's not enough. > These people are hardly genuises. You're quite wrong about this. I know it's tempting to look at a damaged person and assume that they possess no actual extraordinary capabilities, but these people are very very smart. Surely they'd be top-tier HN. :) (Defining "genius" is a whole nother thing, but using any common vernacular meaning, my statement will apply.) Not all billionaires, of course. In context, we're talking about Ellison and Musk. There may be others implied. These people are in fact extremely intelligent. What's missing is not horsepower.

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ginsider_oaks 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

lawnmower

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XorNot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why does he need a description? If Larry Ellison thinks something is true he can argue the case for it using the same universal logical principles which we all have access to.

Who he is is irrelevant.