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 10 Bill Gates knows more about microbiology than you. 
 Probably so, but he gets an F on his covid report card. 
 I have met 1 people who can explain to me the etymology of even one virus, Bacteria or disease that I was not paying them to explain to me. 
 And your point is what? Feel free to directly refute anything I said above. 
 I think he was just adding a 10th item to your list of things we were told that were never true... 
 Investors often get credit for creating technologies or companies when really what they do is buy them. Everyone talks about Tesla like Elon Musk was just sitting at home one day and said to himself “You know what, Humans should live on Mars and I am going to take on Billions of dollars in debt to make that happen”. The truth is these people go billions of dollars into debt to generate wealth, And start looking for good ideas to buy so they look like geniuses. Tesla is a company Elon acquired, The boring company is a DARPA technology in the form of a corporation that other governments have been using since the 80s. At this point having an opinion on any high level science/government/finance department seems asinine, Positive or negative. The epitome of white middle class douche is embodied in the Elon fanboy demographic and it’s crowning achievement is the cybertruck. It is a: Heavy and unreliable b: expensive and unpractical and c: a complete status piece that is nothing more than a waste of money to display your middle class income.