Tesla CEO Elon Musk was seemingly channeling his inner Galt during a video interview with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal at the CEO Council Summit. Apparently Mr. Musk can see what’s on the other side of this spending horizon and doesn’t want to experience it. WATCH:
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The Full Interview is below:
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Sometimes Elon sounds a bit crazy.
But not here.
Seems he’s doing math.
He shows how simple the maths are!
Yes.
I don’t trust Musk, he’s helping usher in transhumanism. I mean yeah I’m happy when he speaks out against this stuff, but have his words changed anything?
A trans something gave him a really stupid haircut.
It looks like an SS haircut.
Please don’t judge by a haircut.
I know good God-loving people with the same.
Appearances don’t always show the real heart.
But mostly…they do.
You may have a point.
My first thought is someone cut their hair using a Flowbee!
You kidding. I love the Flowbee 😀
If his wave had been a little higher…….
You read my mind!
He is a great entrepreneur, but moving from Silicon Valley to Austin is like moving from China to North Korea. Kim Jung Un’s haircut would be an improvement. Oy!
Musk be channeling his inner Kim Jong-Un.
Thanks for posting this Sundance. I watched it yesterday. I know he is probably just another Globalist Puke, but I found it interesting that he was speaking out against over regulation and was calling for an end to All energy subsidies.
I texted my liberal brothers because I honestly thought they were Elon fans of a sort. Well did I get an ear full from my most liberal brother. He went on a rant about Elon, bitching about him telling his employees that they were more likely to die in a car crash than from Covid. and blah blah blah. My response was “So, not a fan? Big Brother says he will not be buying a Tesla or a space x rocket. To which I replied” But, but he is saving the planet from carbon”. Big brother did not grasp the irony.
I can’t help myself. It’s too much fun to mess with the liberal mind.
Truth – for the vast majority, more likely to die in a car crash than from Covid.
Maybe you can explain this to my Big Brother.
2018 NTSB stats, for under 18 yrs old, actually prove this as fact.
I’ve used that argument. ..does not compute.
Logic and facts be rayciss evil cisgendered concepts, y’know.
“energy subsidy” is a progressive term for tax exemptions for depleting your resource reserves…it is akin to a standard business taking depreciation costs for equipment and capital outlays
I’ve published this before. In 2020, there were 528 persons between the ages of 0-19 killed in traffic accidents. 2021 data is not yet available but will easily be at least 500. That means over 1000 traffic fatalities in that age group. Texas first Covid death was in March, 2020, and since that time (as of yesterday), there have been 115 deaths where Covid was present. No question, anyone that says for kids that traffic accidents are more of a threat is telling the truth.
Looks like your having a lot of fun 🙁
Math is fun!
He didn’t like Elon saying that you are more likely to die from a car accident than Covid? Of course, because it’s the truth.
Elon musk is a very outspoken opponent on unregulated AI and genetic experiments.
he has advocated a view that right now both of these fields remain in wild wild west with consequences that are terrible of allowed to continue.
he advocates that standard international firewalls be created to make some of these technologies under top priority for scrutiny.
right now, private companies around the world are designing technologies that are so dangerous and yet there are no meaningful regulations and firewalls to halt them.
he would probably get more credibility of he stopped advocating non fungible bullshit, so there is that. (why replace Fiat currency with crypto…it’s such a disconnect from a truly better solution…jmho)
Good thoughts.
Private companies that are funded by alphabet agencies are definitely a problem, as they become “owned”. Alphabet, AWS are owned, and not by shareholders.
I don’t either, but still glad he spoke out against insane math.
I know. I know. He’s like a space cadet of crazy stuff and really quirky facial expressions, but what he said in these words are spot on, even as a crazy space cadet.
Do we hear Bill Gates, Jeff Besos saying this?
I give Elon credit for being a visionary and trying to the best he can for the USA. Brilliant fella.
LOL…a Chinese shill that just made huge manufacturing deals with them…he will ofc rake American tax money but NO loyalty there
You are absolutely, totally, completely, comprehensively, 100% WRONG!!
I could explain why, but it would take too long and I doubt you would read and understand it.
But I will give you one hint: He is actually saving American tax payers billions.
But first he ravaged their tax payer money to finance himself. All *savings* are a beginning of paying back what belongs to the people that unwillingly financed, invested, in his businesses.
In that, yes, he’s different from the unending tax deductible Foundations; schemes in receiving one way charitable *donations* collected and hoarded.
Will we get interest on Musk’s tax payer financed subsidies which have made him the richest man on earth but not benefitted a discernible value to the tax payer he used? Interest free money by the billions.
Elan is a brilliant cat, and certainly learned to milk D.C. All the power to him…albeit at taxpayers expense 😉
“I don’t trust Musk”
The globalist Agenda 2o50 tyrants will always send a loyalist out to criticism them – just to keep us distracted from the real agenda. Electric cars are a critical element of urbanization – the transition to end of our freedom of movement and our liberty.
To make it worse they are forcing us to pay for our own demise, while elites like Musk get our wealth and amuse themselves with our fate
shade ANY consideration of Elon Musk with his new dealings with the PRC after taking HUGE subsidies from US taxpayers for years…no patriot here but a pure globalist who is trying to usher in pan economics worldwide
He is a South African citizen by birth.
Just another naturalized American hating America and trying to destroy her as most of them do (please don’t trot out one or two that are famously MAGA. They have been “tokened” to death). I wish I could turn back the clock to 1965 and take that immigration act and stuff it up Teddy Kennedy’s nose. They lied then about how it wouldn’t change America. Sure. Whatever. I’ve lived it.
Has the gop congress changed anything? Elon can do a lot when and if he gets started, because he has power, like President Trump.
The technology is coming. There is no stopping it. The only question is who will control it and to what end? Will it be controlled by all of humanity, to be used for things on which we collectively agree through the medium of free markets, or will it be forced upon us by an elite few for their benefit and our demise? Musk strikes me as willing to be a force for the former, but if collective humanity proves unwilling or unable to make the right choices toward those ends, he also seems unwilling to go down with that ship.
Former Denver Bronco wide receiver, Demarius Thomas is reported dead tonight. No details of yet. He was 33 years old and JUST retired recently.
I’m going to take a wild guess it was by heart attack or stroke. Maybe I’m jumping the gun. But it came out of nowhere according to early reports.
And Jared Polis will still try to vaccinate 5 year old children. Obviously Jared’s and Marlon’s children will get no shots but those of a lesser social status will need to vaccinate their children many times.
First reports saying he was found deceased in his Roswell home. No evidence of foul play or self infliction of any kind. Appears to be a medical issue.
No s—t. Sounding more and more like I’m right. I bet by tomorrow it’s determined to be a stroke.
Maybe, maybe – my first reaction is that as a young professional athlete in the prime of life and presumably still working out, pushing himself physically for the sheer joy of it, that his heart blew out due to aftereffects of the covid vaccine. 300 other young athletes have died from heart incidents brouht on by covid vaccine – many of them on the field of play.
Prayers for his family and friends.
OMG on those young athletes. Just terroble!
Being repor0ted he had a seizure disorder for over a year. He had a driver because he could no longer drive due to the seizures. Driver found him dead in the shower.
“Medical issue” is what I read. I bet you’re right.
More opaque language: *Medical issues*.
Unless accidental or suicidal there remains only bodily malfunction.
Seizure disorder for over a year.
Sad. RIP
He’s the single most prominent beneficiary of government subsidies for electric cars.
that’s his point.
there would be MORE competitors in the EV AND OTHER if not for the selective subsidy.
He could be right about EVs.
but major problems are :
-Battery capacity
-charging stations
-charging time
-insufficient grid and power plant capacity
It seems to me that for EV’s to be successful we need to invent a whole new electricity production technology. IMO nothing beats natural gas for clean burning energy.
Solar is a nice technology but it is too dependent on expensive batteries to be a 24/7 solution.
The globalists are not subsidizing EVs and charging stations because they are better, “cooler” or “greener”. They are doing it because they inherently limit the range of the vehicle.
The goal of 2030/2050 is to get us out of our effectively unlimted range gas/diesel cars, out of suburban and rural homes, and into their urban Mega Regions, and then, finally going to work at whichever of their fascist monopolies is within an electric train commute from our government apartment.
Yeah sDee I’m with you. You are preaching to the choir.
I would rather have a F350 diesel 4×4 flat bed with a 100 gallon auxiliary tank and 2500 mile range and 15000 lb towing capacity anyday.
Elon is a futurist though. Who knows someday EV’s might replace my dream truck. Probably not in my lifetime.
I hope be in your rear view mirror in my 7.3L
Maybe I will be if I can scrape enough fiat inflated Bidenbucks together. I really like the old Dodge Cummins 6 cylinder too.
2003 Dodge 6 speed stick shift., 360k. I will never need another vehicle in my lifetime.
That’s because you’re 80 years old.
F350 diesel 4×4 ..nice..
During the Obama years I saw one with a large sign in his rear window..
Underneath a picture of Obama it said,
“Does this Ass make my TRUCK look big?”
in 1950, the typical ICE motor in production for vehicles was approx. 50 percent energy efficient…(design, efficiency, friction, weight)
by 1995 that improved to around 70 percent…roughly.
right now, it about 79 percent..
point:. through competition, innovation…with all the kinds of benefits that come with it that are very real
ev has a place in transportation..because it’s very efficient…very efficient.
no it does not and will not solve all transportation regimes. but it doesn’t have to in order for it to make a difference either. on average, car owners drive around 20-40 miles daily. average…at every home is a fuel station…it’s called the electric grid. energy from the grid is magnitudes of order less expensive than the refined fuel at the pump down the street…it’s a scale thing.
each one of the problems and obstacles you stated are engineering problems..
if we examine how competition has led to superior vehicles in the ice I have no problem imagining the same will not happen with these engineering obstacles.
my issue is not with different kinds of technology. my issue is this insane idea it can all happen in a 4 year presidential term or that subsidies is how you make it work…that’s stupid and it actually penalizes completion to innovate.
I will always own and drive a ICE …both tractor and truck.
unless some technology breakthrough can achieve the same amount of reliable durable work and I can still do a field repair myself. I think that will happen. I believe this because of you were to somehow go back I time say one hundred years and show someone an iphone they would accuse you of sorcery. we can’t imagine what lies just outside our reach…but it does happen ..and then it’s common…we assume it.
in my view, the best strategy going forward is a mixed energy based economy. plus great innovation to continue pushing each forward toward higher and higher efficiency.
one size can’t fit all.
and that’s my complaint with “green” deal money…it’s devoted in only a handful of areas, when it would be best to invest in a of them and embrace market based competition.
this corrupt state is going to screw but all up
and that’s really what Elon is arguing
ev WILL fail if this idiotic corrupt state doesn’t stop this nonsense.
when you are doing things horribly and putting all your Capitol in that,you aren’t putting good Capitol to work in other things that do…
this administration doesn’t understand how markets operate… they are forcing Capitol toward a fantasy transition based on vapor.
and that means trouble for ALL innovators and tech providers.
Excellent points Regitiger. I have always been interested in future energy technology. I think we will never run out of oil and coal because someday a breakthrough will make them obsolete someday.
I agree that EVs have a place. I think FJB’s Residency is putting the cart before the horse and will FJB it up. I think this was one of Elon’s points. Let the innovators innovate.
The government should not be a player on the field but a “referee”.
If thats the message, isn’t he the WORST one to be the messenger, since his companies couldn’t exist without massive government subsidies?
Exactly, Dutchman. Also why I do not trust him. His words may be true; but, is his intent honorable?
Agreed – it seems the days of free market opportunities, innovation chasing opportunity, and hard work chasing profit are rare. That was the dynamic I spent an entire career in and am most fortunate.
Musk already knows they already killed it.
my big concern is innovators like musk (there are on fact thousands of innovators on the us) will be forced to offshore because of this administrations desire to break things to score political points and funnel money to their cronies.
he’s already responded to the batshit crazy economic and political moonbats in California by shifting to Texas and new mexico (or is it Arizona?)
I think Elon sees a reality that other innovators fear also…that the us, once the ideal proving ground for innovation, seems bent on crushing it and diving it away.
there is no mistake why and how president Trump, a new York playboy, against all odds came to power. it was one part appealing to and addressing the needs and care for main street…but it was also the reality that big innovators felt a relief we finally had a successful businessman who knew how to get the economic engine tuned up.
my prediction about how stage 7 revolution ends ushers in someone like Trump or musk…a true Patriot, dedicated to us interests that lead the world into a new peace through the wonders of economic prosperity.
I do not know where you get your “information” but the ICE is less than HALF what you cite…HUGE amounts of energy are poured into the environment through your cooling system
“Sadly, even with regular car maintenance such as a tune-up or an oil change, today’s gasoline engines are only around 30 to 35 percent efficient, which means roughly 65 cents out of every dollar you spend on gas goes to waste.”
https://www.google.com/search?q=standard+car+internal+combustion+engine+efficiency&oq=standard+car+internal+combustion+engine+efficiency&aqs=chrome..
69i57j33i22i29i30l2.19344j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Who cares. We have enough abiotic carbon fuel cooking under the earth’s crust to last forever, or until we have a fusion reactor. My dream was to have a president like Kennedy proclaiming to build the worlds first fusion reactor in 10 years. IMO we already have cold fusion but it is being kept from us just like any other discovery that could help humanity make the next quantum leap forward.
Elon is right. but for reasons many of us don’t understand. I had to listen carefully to his pints of view about subsidies.
in reality selective subsidies create discrimination and favoritism based on the political whims and not from the pure bred nature of innovation.
yes he takes subsidies because he is no fool…who would not pass them up?
but his points remain valid regardless.
innovation and competition are in fact hamstrung when selective subsidies happen.
it also causes inferior products and services that would otherwise not be competitive.
take Boeing as an example.. through massive regulation (that has nothing to do about airworthiness) and selective tax and subsidy benefits, Boeing maintains a captive market position.
there are no equivalent market competitors. Airbus yes, but that just illustrates the same exact captive market result as Airbus also has a achieved tax and subsidy benefits.
the result is that no other competitor even has a chance to get into this wide body industry and compete.
it also means there are no competitive market fixes that pressure Boeing to be innovative and build better more cost effective safer aircraft.
Elon annoys alot of people but he’s not an idiot. he sees what is around the corner…it’s what makes him very talented… some say genius…I happen to consider him the Howard Hughes of our time without the crazy part. (well maybe just a little).
Elon is saying in no uncertain terms.. remove the subsidies and you see new power innovation and other technologies take off.
the subsidies give captive markets de facto market dominance and this leads to less innovation, more stagnancy, and the continued political pet projects out of DC that serve zero public good other than lining the pockets of cronies.
regitiger:
I hope readers here pay attention to this comment of yours.
You are listening and interpreting this about Elon quite accurately.
Yeah, he can be a bit quirky at times, including crazy facial expressions and a really weird hairdo, but his words in this video resonate.
I don’t agree with all things he said in the past. But I am with him on this. Delete!
Does anybody here have a single doubt why Sundance would post this video in the first place if he didn’t think there wasn’t some kind of semblance of significance?
Really?!
Your reference to HH is a good one. He was a bit quirky too.
Can we expect to see him building a giant Spruce Tesla? I agree with all your Elon opinions.
when he blasted the Tesla into orbit, just because
yes he already had his goose moment.
I ordered the star link system and should have it up and running on about 4 months…another spectacular aspect of his forward looking enigmatic engineering mind set.
like Trump he has a very good nose for talent! solid no BS leadership too
few years ago, his Tesla production was in the tubes..everyone and I mean everyone predicted it would bomb. too fast too reliant on robotic assembly machines…quality was crap… production was no where near where it had to be to be viable.
guy jumps in, and goes to work … literally sleeps on a couch in the plant …first thing he does…fire all the dead weight…then hired skilled labor to replace the robots.
what billionaire does that…none. facing the same situation most would and have abandoned the entire project and moved on.
it’s passion that drives this engineer.
I don’t even want or need an ev… probably never will own one. it’s still quite impressive to see the work.
in terms of innovation, this work is important as a national strategy.
when the price point and repairability come down …and it will, I might be tempted.
but I am also reminded that in 1989 I owned a Mac IIci, and paid nearly 7,000 bucks for it… that would be 24,000 in today’s dollars.
I guess I’m getting frugal as I age.
yes, coupons…
I’ve watched my dad labor over an engineering puzzle for weeks; dogged, determined, unwilling to yield to the problem posed. Yep. It’s an engineering mindset. To solve the problem is the goal. You don’t quit until the problem is solved.
I was privileged to work, early in my career, for Bell Laboratiries. I watched the engineering mindset at work. Elon reminds me of those brilliant, eccentric men who paved the way for so many technological breakthroughs.
I knew a higher up at Bell Labs named John Lodwig. Dated his daughter.
He knows what is coming because he is an instrument of the global cabal that set in all in motion.
“it also means there are no competitive market fixes that pressure Boeing to be innovative and build better more cost effective safer aircraft.”
This line made me think of how President Trump was able to “create” market pressure by pitting Lockheed and Boeing against each other in making a better deal for fighter jets, or bargaining with Boeing to bring down the cost of an Air Force One. (Like Elon — another crazy brilliant billionaire…)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/business/trump-boeing-lockheed-cut-costs-fighter-jets.html
different people, but yes exceedingly determined to drive success AND to get rid of waste.
Don’t quite know what to think of the man other than that he is an attention hound. He has beaucoup dollars so not inclined to believe he cares about us regular folk.
He cares that we keep working, so we can keep being taxed, so he can keep getting his cut of it.
Elon Musk Two Word Response to Congress About Biden’s Build Back Better Spending Bill: “Delete It”
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Meh. In politics (unlike his accomplishments as a businessman/industrialist), Musk is a squish interested in half-measures only.
A real John Galt of courageous virtue would have responded “Delete All Those Who Proposed and Back It.”
WHERE is our John Galt? (It could be Trump, but he naively continues to try and work within a thoroughly corrupted system. ProTip: We’re not voting or suing our way out of this …). WHERE is our William Wallace who, in addition to understanding the true and palpable evil and extent to which our death cult enemies will go to eradicate us, will “unite the clans” and take the country back on our own terms?
“Where have you gone General Washington —
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you … woo, hoo, hoo.”
I hate to break it to you but developers have the most prized tax benefits and subsidies of nearly any other .
yes President Trump is very successful and built an empire…but make no mistake being a developer is just about the very best opportunity to make a fortune too and do it with favorable political action that has decided that developers “deserve” to be treated special.
that’s not knocking President Trump… it’s praising him for his intelligence to choose a road with many rewards few other industry and businesses actually have.
Once again, I hope readers here get your point.
Me too! Where would our country be without the Elon Musks of the world.
Personally, I am going to look at any tax credit or deduction available and decide if it makes since to me. Taxed enough already.
Says a guy whose entire auto “business” would never have ever been if not for massive government R&D funding , tax breaks, and regulatory favors, along with subsidies on each vehicle.
SpaceX brought the costs of satellite launches down by a factor of three or four (depending on your math and what you take into consideration) from what NASA was doing, and also from simply outsourcing to the Russians which is both expensive and utterly idiotic for reasons I hope you grasp.
I’ll take those “subsidies” (ie, federal contracts paid to a private company for services rendered) any damn day of the week.
I was specifically referring to his auto “business”. But now that you mention it, I forgot to add the great fortune of globalist “coerced” IP transfers. Do you really think he built the plants, the robotics, the vehicle platforms from scratch in a couple of years?
I spent part of my career building vehicle launch systems at Launch Complex 39. I know a tad about that too. All NASA launch systems were built by private aerospace contractors. They cost more because the Feds were running it. Musk could never ever have done it on his own without transfers of technology and all the capital he needed.
Musk is as far as one can get from free market capitalism. Like Google, Amazon, Apple, it is all high glitz, high dollar, high tech fascism. And it is not going to end well for the freemen from whom they are extracting the wealth.
here is a reality check…just something to ponder.
Elon CHOSE the united states as homeplate.
he could have just as easily gone to Russia or China.
I understand your general concern about globalism…I do.
Elon and his company and building very important first steps that will allow the United States at least in three areas I know about to maintain PREIMINENCE!
Tesla
space x
star link
(I’m not going to list solarwall or those flamethrowers..but hey, you can’t get it all right)
Thought Musk was building a HUGE electric vehicle manufacturing facility in China. And we are told everything built there the govt and military has full access to insider knowledge of processes, inventions, etc. so his ventures come across as a mixed bag, get governments to fund whether directly or via tax breaks, subsidies, etc., it almost seems like now that he’s go his now it’s time to close the barn door. but, just my opinion.
a major part of manufacturing Tesla is yes on china.
you got it right.
in order to sell into china, which IS THE LARGEST EV MARKET ON THE ENTIRE WORLD, Tesla had to make concessions.
either that or take the risk CCP would clone his ev car and his company would rapidly slip under the waves.
I am opposed to offshoring manufacturing and especially IP license to CCP controlled assets.
I think Elon has done a remarkable job negotiating terms that delimits CCP from also dominating the market.
his company remains dominant, and the brain trust remains fully us based.
for now.
who knows what happens of this administration continues to crush us markets.
then we won’t be worried about Tesla cars that have less than a 2 percent penetration… we’ll be thinking more about how we can afford to buy essential items down at the CCCP Walmart.
You’re dangerously close to Obama “You didn’t build that” territory here, partner. lmfao
Respectfully, any private enterprise that couldn’t match a government agencies output, while cutting costs at least by two, doesn’t deserve to be in business.
Remember Donald Trump, and the NYC Ice skating rink?
So, not really THAT much to brag about, that he matched NASA’S output, at 3-4 times less cost.
just sayin,..
And yet, no one had done this miraculously easy thing until private capital was at risk and private innovation applied.
you have to include a 40% premium out of the gate with ANY government agency…this is the taxes that support all the bureaucracy that is overstaffed and unneeded
But that’s the point – as long as the government offers such, a smart business person who sees the opportunity would be a fool not to work with it.
But Elon is also smart enough to see where it leads – and in that case, he could keep his mouth shut and continue to be one of only a select few reaping the rewards, or advocate for a different path that allows more competition and innovation, which would provide benefit on a much wider scale.
“as long as the government offers such, a smart business person who sees the opportunity would be a fool not to work with it.”
Musk did not have to compete in an open market. The market was created for him.
The government takes money at gunpoint from our paychecks and gives it to him to build what the government needs in order serve the globalist agenda and to further our demise.
I would not call that a business person – I would call that a fascist in a mansion.
So true! Yet it’s good to hear him making these comments for the whole world to hear(even if hypocritically).
The gal from WSJ was totally flummoxed by his startling candor.
All in all, it was a wonderful thing to hear!
Your earlier comments re limits placed on our mobility (re EVs) and herding people into cities (the easier to propagandize) are major points. That’s the purpose of CA’s wildfires (most due to arson). They make living in such areas dangerous and uninsurable.
I wonder how many have connected the dots re wildfires. Greece had them just prior to a new Communist government taking over ten years ago. Australia had devastating fires prior to going woke. And many other examples.
Elon is ultimately a good dude I think. Yeah he believes in Globalist business if the situation warrants it but I don’t think he wants what the actual Globalists have in mind. He’s a smart dude and I think on the side of God/Light. I believe he is trying.
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Joanna Stern and the WSJ status quo (or uniparty) retards were hilariously unprepared for Musk. He may be eccentric, but he’s red pilled and awake to the bullsh*t.
First time I have heard that man speak. Is he on the spectrum? Sundance mentioned the other day his observation of people w/speech patterns I would say this guy fits in that slot.
Yes, he is… When Elon hosted SNL, he talked about having Asperger’s, and even joked about it:
During his “SNL” monologue, Musk said, “Sometimes after I say something, I have to say, ‘I mean that’ — so people really know that I mean it. That’s because I don’t always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak, which I’m told makes for great comedy.”
He continued: “I’m actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL — or at least the first to admit it. So, I won’t make a lot of eye contact with the cast tonight. But don’t worry, I’m pretty good at running ‘human’ in emulation mode.”
https://psychcentral.com/autism/elon-musk-opened-up-about-autism-heres-what-we-learned#who-is-elon-musk
Elon Musk had a very difficult childhood
His father is an absolute PIG
He was beaten up at school-so badly that he landed in hospital with severe injuries
His mom brought Elon and his 2 siblings up literally on her own with no child support
The motto in the family was “if you start something you have to finish it, theres no dropping out”
The only thing that got in the way of their whims was the rule that none of them were allowed to quit, anything, ever.
I believe this contributed to the way Musk operates
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/elon-musk-family-maye-musk
Well said!!!
As a boy, he would read books for ten hours a day. Eventually he exhausted all the books in the local libraries and became a huge fan of sci-fi novels in the process. Once he’d read all he could find he started to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from the first page of the ‘A’ volume to the last page of the ‘Z’ volume.
When he finally emigrated to America (via Canada) he said he wanted to be there because “That’s where great things happen!”
How right he was!
LOL! I read phone books in every city my family visited, read the dictionary, read the encyclopedia, and my dad and I played a game where he’d get this huge two-volume dictionary out and call out random words and I had to spell them and tell what they meant. I had a great childhood, though. But, yeah. Elon read the encyclopedia. I felt that.
I wish I had kept my set of encyclopedias, I haven’t seen any in years.
Interesting how trauma affects different people.
Aaaah. He reminds me of Zuckerberg, Gates, and Bezos. Weird how all these men have gained so much power in the world in spite of their neuro sensitivities. Thanks for the info.
Smart people need to shut up to keep from offending stupid people.
So, no comment here. Just trying to obey.
Or, “tis better to keep your mouth closed, and be thought a fool,…”
Out of all the billionaires I trust Musk the best. He has a “soft” side to him. All rich people can’t be bad. BTW, I think his haircut is to gradually prepare us for a no hair in 2 years. Look at his robots.
I agree
Elon isnt stupid He knows who is pulling the strings eg
“Give My Regards to Your Puppet Master” – Elon Musk to Washington Post Reporter
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/give-regards-puppet-master-elon-musk-washington-post-reporter/
You know what, we are fighting old money. People are dying because of money. I have a job that require a really required excellence in workmanship. I tried working out how old people can do the same 60 years ago. There was no pressure, they enjoyed it, they survived. It all started with the outbreak of worl war 2. People lived so much differently that time I think. There was no pressure. If you contributed to society , society contributes back. a symbiotic lifestyle where nobody wants to rake in everyones money. I am simply done with society. Not the ones with common sense, but the other ones.
TOM UTLEY: Elon Musk is right – it’s NOT selfish to have lots of children. Who else will pull pints in the future?
He is 100% correct but who will do the work and pay the taxes?
I posted an article yestarday that many Americans are not having any childen
Purely selfish
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10294799/TOM-UTLEY-Elon-Musk-right-NOT-selfish-lots-children.html
Musk is in a very precarious position. If the real economy AND Wall Street tank, he is screwed.
He is unlike most of the tech oligarchs, he makes physical products which he sells into the real economy.
Vs, nearly all the other oligarchs who make tech products which virtualize and cannibalize the real economy. Witness Meta Verse emerging from San Francisco Bay Area, where the city itself is becoming a hellscape.
The faster the real economy becomes intolerable and dysfunctional, the faster the virtual vulture oligarchs like Zuck become gazillionaires.
Musk bets that humans will actually want to inhabit real space, on Earth and in the stars.
Huge difference
Wonderful and insightful points! Thanks!
Before people start fawning all over Mr. Musk, they might want to go over to
@GigiSims10. There is a long, but seemingly well researched, thread from November 29 & 30 that explains what he and other creeps like him have planned for all of us. It is absolutely terrifying and seems to be coming whether we want it or not. While we were all asleep, they all played their hand well.
People get hung up on stupid shite…
I wish we had 20 more Elon’s..
Musk – SpaceX.
Bezos – Blue Origin.
Musk – Starlink.
Bezos – Project Kuiper.
Musk – Telsa.
Bezos – Rivian.
Musk or Bezos?
Musk. 😉
Beaker was always awesome on the Muppet Show!
When did he change his hair?
Musk’s kind of goofy, and not right on everything. But he’s also not stupid. And his instincts are generally in the direction of freedom. He’s worth listening to and considering what he says on things.
And Musk continues to dump his own stock
It is his only method to generate cash for personal expenses or things no one else wants to invest in. Dumping? Or merely reducing his massive holdings a tiny bit? I guess time will tell.
Worth over $200 billion, but went to Supercuts. Love this guy!
Sometimes this guy is right, but most of the time, he’s pretty squirrely. However, I heard that Elon did say something hilarious about Bernie Sanders: “I keep forgetting you’re still alive.”
This guy has been playing at double agent since 2009.
He made his fortune sending his bailout money to China Inc. to finish development of his energy “related break through”.
For over 10 years every car and product he sold or licensed had US Tax Payer dollars behind it.
He is working to set up “licensed” capabilities in China.
He knows more than the math…he as actually SEEN and participated on both sides of the fence.
Yep, seeing his public declarations are nice but make no mistake, he is a double dealing scum bag.
Yeah, well. Elon was for subsidies before he was against them. Those subsidies were the only reason Tesla made any money back in the day.
What? Like wipe it with a cloth?
Like all those gubt phones and records under subpoena?
Under no circumstances should the gubt ever be funding R & D. That is for private business.
Trust no billionaire, suspect every billionaire!!
So – why did this video clip include a laugh track? 🤡
Mr. Musk is simply saying what anyone and everyone in their right mind would be saying – that you cannot continue to “borrow” far more money than you earn, no matter what you say that you intend to spend the money on.
Elon has received a LOT of taxpayer money….
I recall him not liking the Tesla shorts on Twitter calling him out regarding the 100s of millions in govt funds for both Solar City and Tesla while both corporations were bleeding money for 10 yrs. Weird how it now suddenly is of concern after his company starts making profits (majority of it on Bitcoin). I want to root for him being successful in this message, despite the hypocrisy.
kinda has that kim jong ung look going.
One wonders why Musk is investing in other than US currency?
It’s coming.
Guess the devil lettuce hasn’t messed up his brain that much.
Bravo to Elon, me thinks he wants to say what he really thinks about the state of the country.
Notice the Haircut is a homage to Mao and his True masters Xi and the CCP.