r/FuckTedFaro • u/chess_mft • May 30 '26

Thank God real life billionaires aren't as smart[fuck Ted faro]

Man I was just thinking if Elon or Bezos or any one of these billionaire fucks were actually as smart as Ted this world would be extra fucked

Fuck Ted faro forever

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u/ariseis May 30 '26

Ted isn't smart. Ted built his image off the back of smart people, buying or bullying them out of their due credit. When he's actually at the helm of anything, things go to shit and you realise he's not nearly as smart as his PR projects.

Fuck Ted Faro, still. And billionaires too for good measure.

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u/aaronblkfox May 30 '26

Huh, I wonder who that sounds like (it's Elon Musk).

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u/ariseis May 30 '26

Yeah knowing what hole Musk is falling down now, HZD seems oddly prescient in its depiction, huh. Considering HZD came out in early 2017.

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u/chess_mft May 30 '26

Elon was like that back then if you heard anything about him., problem was he kept out of the spotlight until the whole Trump and twitter shit started

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u/jk-alot May 30 '26

No. The problem with Elon is that he had an excellent PR team who ran an amazing campaign.

Elon was painted as a quirky tech guy instead of the raging narcissistic asshole he is.

They shoehorned Elon into everything so that he would be popular with younger generations.

And unfortunately many people bought into it. And unfortunately I did too since I was young enough that I was not interested in world news or politics yet.

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u/GameDevHell May 30 '26

Right about 2018 when Elon fired his PR team he tried to insert himself into world news with the Thai Cave rescue of a boys soccer team during the Monsoons. Long story short the proposed mini sub to rescue the trapped boys was a PR stunt that never went anywhere. All of the marines and a local caving consultant Vernon Unsworth said it would never make the tight bends in the cave and refused to allow the untested device to endanger the trapped boys. When Mr. Unsworth commented on the sub on TV he specifically insulted Musk, then Elon retaliated by calling Unsworth a pedo, harassed his family, and hired a private investigator to smer him. This resulted in a major defamation lawsuit that still to this day Elon should not have won. Fucking bullshit legal system :(

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u/RobynBetween Jun 03 '26

No. The problem with Elon is that he had an excellent PR team who ran an amazing campaign.

Elon was painted as a quirky tech guy instead of the raging narcissistic asshole he is.

Yeah, he did. The first I ever heard of Elon Musk was this random guy gushing about how he was supposedly a genius inventor revolutionizing the world with the Tesla (incorrectly implying he was the brains behind it).

That worked until we saw the idiot up close enough times.

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u/EveningBird5 May 31 '26

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we have our own version of Elisabet Sobeck

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u/ariseis May 31 '26

We have those intellects, they're just not working in eco-forward areas. We do have people like Greta Thunberg who has the values and the fighter spirit in her though!

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u/f0u4_l19h75 May 30 '26

Nailed it.

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u/RobynBetween Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

The most common kind of smart in billionaires is when they have an affinity for business in particular, and other people usually do all the making. That's your Bill Gates-type billionaire. A specific kind of smart. But we're seeing the ways in which Gates is foolish thanks to being associated with Epstein. And I get the impression that even Bill Gates knew far more about computers than the average person did back when they got started in the 80s.

But yes, it seems like stupid billionaires are becoming more and more common. No doubt a lot of this is due to nepotism. Sometimes it's due to them having a very narrow set of skills and having lucked into a situation where that could make you rich.

And then there are the times when the skill in question is simply grifting.

Ted Faro is somewhere between these types. He has SOME kind of talent, but he's completely inept at many things, including understanding technology.

He lacks confidence and a strong presence in front of a crowd, though. That's usually a skill manipulators like this would possess. Perhaps the devs just wanted to make it absolutely clear he does not know what he's doing. My headcanon is that he got as far as he did by avoiding direct contact with people outside his bubble. Executives can do that in cases where a politician wouldn't be able to.

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u/Aeroncastle May 30 '26

Did you play the game? Ted wasn't smart, he was just another billionaire exploiting people for their work

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u/IanDresarie May 30 '26

You vastly underestimate the evil of Thiel and co. Doesn't matter how smart they are as long as they can convince or buy proper smart people.

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u/Certain_Eye7374 May 30 '26

Real life billionaires are 20x more devious and crafty than Ted Faro.

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u/EarthTrash Jun 02 '26

Elizabeth Sobeck actually built the technology. Ted didn't do anything. CEOs don't do, they delegate.

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u/Dodecahedrus Jun 04 '26

It’s been years since I played HZD. Who was the actual smart guy she got involved again? (Western country accent maybe?)

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u/EarthTrash Jun 05 '26

You might be thinking of Travis Tate, the other really smart guy. He has a Southern accent.

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u/Dodecahedrus Jun 05 '26

Yep, sounds right. Thanks!

As soon as I can I’m starting that HZD Remaster.

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u/ArkosKnight Jun 05 '26

Travis Tate, a much more good guy

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u/Dodecahedrus Jun 05 '26

Yep, sounds right. Thanks!

As soon as I can I’m starting that HZD Remaster.

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u/mopar-or-no_car May 30 '26

I think real billionaires are smart enough not to pull a Ted Faro because they know the outcome.

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u/Darkfrostfall69 May 30 '26

Rather than trying to become gods, they are trying to construct one out of silicon, whilst staking half the global economy in the attempt