If people ever found out the truth about Elon Musk they would realise they could no longer participate in society.
Remember, as the official face of "innovation" in the U.S., the government funded serial failure Musk who has an amazing till that never seems to run dry can continue "startling new industries" one after another in which nothing useful ever emerges. This way the government controls the opposition and the official alternative all at once. Meanwhile, things never change.
Musk = even bigger fraud than Bill Nye and Neil Degrasses Tyson put together.
Musk and his D.O.G.E., not to be confused with the rulers of Renaissance Venice, are as much a disgrace to America as the Felon-in-Chief himself!!
Elon Musk isn't even a US citizen, who sounds somewhat foreign when he speaks, aligns himself with Germany's AfD ("unofficially", of course), and wants to slash and burn at his boss' every whim.
Reminds me a little of that Al Dunlap character back in the '90's, or even the late former Reagan appointee, Don Rumsfeld, so-called efficiency experts, who eliminated entire corporate department for questionable reasons and put uncounted Americans out of work. Many never found jobs again, or at best, at pay far below their background.
..... That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank, that later formed PayPal. In 2002, Musk acquired U.S. citizenship, and eBay acquired PayPal. Using the money he made from the sale, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company, in 2002. In 2004, Musk was an early investor in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and became its chairman and later CEO. ....
I remember the worship by the world Left as his political views weren't known and everybody and his grandmom believed Silicon Valley and all these tech nerds are automatically also leftists.
Wow how that turned on its head as he dared to differ. Sometimes it seems achievements count nothing at all without the correct, accepted political views....
Reminds me abit about modern feminists....I learned nobody hates women more than feminists hate other women who disagree.
Sometimes it seems achievements count nothing at all
SpaceX is just decades old tech with some fancy modern computer stuff strapped in. But it exists. It makes Tesla money. Probably because it works out to being more expensive than a space shuttle. His satellite internet can't service a large enough population at meaningful speeds, his Tesla trucks don't make sense, since the battery takes up too much weight to haul any worthwhile load, his cars explode in 1000-degree fireballs that water can't put out, battery tech itself is hamstrung by the price of Lithium, his roofs are a waste of money due to their high cost, his Boring Company is a fraud that doesn't make actual mass transit, his robots are vaporware that companies in China and Japan have working prototypes for.
He's a typical venture capital scammer who knows how to sell an idea to investors and clients, and that's what he's been doing his entire career. Just because he got big marks to bite doesn't mean he's not a scammer. He literally scammed people into buying Dogecoin, sold and then laughed about it being a hustle on SNL. He scammed Las Vegas on that dumb underground mario cart track. He scammed everyone who paid for the autopilot feature on his cars which is basically just a modern cruise control that people die from falling asleep while using. He scammed the people who bought his roofs by doubling the actual price later.
Let me know how those people who preordered his Semi and Cybertruck are liking their purchases.
@Rich, The US doesn't need a specific government body devoted to business efficiency! The ineluctable eugenic conclusion of such thinking is that certain Americans are simply born and bred entrepreneurs who will success no matter who's in office, therefore, to hell in a handbasket with the rest of those deemed too slow or just incapable of keeping up with "progress" or "regress" as the case may be.
This is all a direct result of Reaganism, a derivative of that EST (Erhard Seminar Training) jazz I've already mentioned here ad nauseum. The question is not "Why aren't you a mega- billionaire ten times over?", but rather, what is YOUR particular skill set and how can the society make the best, most profitable, use of it. Everyone has a comfortable place in society as we once had, be it the bagger at a Walmart or the CEO of Microsoft. Of course the earning scale will be different, granted. However, need those less talented in all areas be made to feel as though their contribution is worth nothing??
Not all Americans are natural born math genii or creative accountants. When ordinary folks began being penalized for what they weren't instead of rewarded forwhat they were, this is when things started getting dicey and "just plain folks" tragically started taking matters into their own hands, egged on, not by inbred criminality, but by frustration that the United States was brazenly, smugly passing them by in a brave new world order which marginalizes individual achievement, solely in favor of the Zuckerbergs, Bezos' and the rest of those who ignore standard and quality.
Rich, I never implied or stated that every gov't. program meets with my approval, did I? No. Therefore, why throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater??
As George Bailey said in "It's a Wonderful Life", to paraphrase, it's the middle class who do most of the living and dying in our community! Is it too much to ask that they live and/or die in some semblance of comfortable surroundings?
This thinking was prevalent during the immediate post-War years, up through the mid-'70's. Then The Reagan Counter Revolution all but destroyed all of such hopes and dreams.
Frank Capra, above all FRD, must have been turning over in their graves!
EU's right calls for new 'Reconquista' against 'Islamist advance' Several leaders have urged Europe to fight against lenient migration policies, as well as globalist and woke policies
Let's see if Euros are brave enough to agree with the EU's right...
DOGE starts purge of FEMA by firing top agents who put up illegal migrants in 5-star hotels after agency refused to help Trump voters in hurricane-battered North Carolina
FEMA's Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans lost her job after it was revealed the agency paid $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.
If it's a moron, 80% it's a woman...with "big heart"...and no brain...These two always go together...
That "DEI" in the background says it all... A vagina trumps a Ph.D.