Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

Well, I personally would NEVER disagree with random people on Reddit who assure me, (and who can argue with THAT), that he's the bestest and most brilliant person in the world, despite coming out with the most ridiculous ideas that anyone has ever thought of.

 

I don't think you're thinking it through dave. People don't ONLY want their car to go to and from places, (work or whatever). They also want them any time they fancy to go to the shops, to pick up an unexpected friend from the airport or any other activity.

I dare say there will be people who think they can do what you suggest but I think that will pall quickly when they have to take a bus for some important trip and have to sit next to a screaming baby for 20 minutes when their car is on the other side of town.

 

Jobs came up with the idea of the i-Pod and got it done. Then he came up with the idea of the I-Phone and got it done.

Tesla and electric cars existed before Musk. Putting satellites in space existed before Musk.

 

A, that's half the joke. And D, Amazon just tried to pull off this exact thing with their grocery store.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology

 

Musk is a conman who invented the Cybertruck and electric cars driving slowly through a tunnel.

 

Conning people out money for the tech, which thanks to the people around him worked for a while.

 

This guy summed Musk up a couple of years ago.

 

So if everyone drives to work then whores out their cars s

Just because people have made money out of investing in Tesla doesn't mean it's not a con. Early investors have made money out of pyramid and Ponzi schemes.

Hyperloop!

 

He is really good at putting real engineers in charge, and when the finance people say "it's too expensive to do that" he goes out and gets more money to do it right.

See: the opposite of Boeing.

 

In the last 5 years. They had a pretty good century before that.

But this is the way US companies are going. It's all about cutting short-term costs at the expense of long-term investment, then selling off what's left.

 

The Romney Effect

 

They existed before Tesla, but Musk made electric cars sexy. Before Musk, EVs were 90 mile range with trickle chargers and were the ultimate in niche. I have no doubt that EVs would have eventually been pushed into the forefront, but Tesla built the existing market and the reason it made that market is because of Musk. I'm all for taking dumps on Musk for being a homophobic racist pile of shit, but the guy is an excellent salesman and he put energy behind EVs that simply didn't exist before he took the stage for the first time.

While this is also true, see the previously mentioned comment about Musk making EVs sexy. Also, prior to SpaceX, rockets were extremely expensive and the entire rocket was disposable. SpaceX was the first company to successfully launch and land the first and second stage of a rocket. This allowed the most expensive parts of a rocket to be re-used and massively drove down the cost of launching satellites into space.

So, yeah, Musk may not be the lead engineer on these projects, but he's the guy that got it done, so let's not denigrate him outside of being a POS.