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Wasn’t Starlink marketed in the same way as the “banking the unbanked” principle, but for rural / less affluent areas? Starlink ain’t cheap so for who is it exactly? I wouldn’t pay €300 to buy a Starlink Kit AND pay €85 a month for internet if i weren’t affluent lol. Always found that interesting…
Tesla would not exist in a free market economy. It’s technology is inferior efficiency wise than current technology mainly due to the Achilles heel of the battery. We have not figured out electricity storage. Tesla is unprofitable, but subsidized by Wall Street and anointed as one of bets by VCs that everyone invest into to pump it. Elon has been hand picked as the manipulator in chief, the idiot savant. When he’s not. Has he ever actually completed a thought? Shit posting puzzling one liners is all I see. And in the background he pursues the WEF agenda.
He sacrificed his first born son to satan (baphomet)
Great post #[1] - one you forgot and might be biggest of all.
Capturing the benefits of an inflationary monetary system (versus advocating for those benefits to flow to society through #Bitcoin) in order to build artificial intelligence that he owns….while pretending to care about regulating AI to slow others down (because he is behind openai)
I unfollowed him long ago because I realized almost everything he said was in service of his narcissism and control versus the greater good for society.
Thanks Lyn ❤️
Basically 95%+ of people who can afford starlink live in places with infinitely better and cheaper internet. Thinking you can finance thousands of satellites to orbit earth from revenue from people who are too poor to have broadband or proper infrastructure is the equivalent of thinking electric cars or dogecoin are not a retarded idea.
Starlink is a government subsidised surveillance program
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Did you get hacked? This is an uncharacteristically uninformed take.
Elon's critical for a chance at biobackup - just deal with/ignore the rest of his shit/displacement activities
l disagree with everything you said.
sounds more like you are upset at something he did.
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I've always wondered why people gave Elon credit for the engineering of Teslas. Sure, the guy helped get them on the map...but he didn't design the cars.
How do you want to frame achieve or do more? Because this list can be long in several different framings
Notice you didn't dispute that Lyn is lying.
« no man is a prophet in his own country »
Hahahaha and always will be
Lyn - I don't know who said it earlier, but I have to agree that you are SAVAGE! ... And totally right once again. I appreciate your continued hard work and insights. I hope you stick to it for quite a while.
Definitely underestimating how much of our budget those of us in a rural areas (which are much closer to metroplexes than you might think) we are willing to spend to get modern luxury the internet provides. This includes areas where even cell signal doesn't come through. Starlink is a game changer. Also has the potential to vastly increase the spread of wealth to those areas through telework. It's revolutionary.
Love him or hate him, Tesla is absolutely crushing it as a company. Have a look at their most recent financials Lyn. And they have the technology to back it up too. Whether it's due to Elon or in spite of Elon, that's up for debate, at least for some people.
Long cables are much much cheaper than satellites. Maybe if people weren't wasting their money on another retarded idea from the grifter who brought us dogecoin, ruined Twitter and is hell-bent on uninventing the automobile, you'd have more broadband internet and less living vicariously as the teenager that got away with not growing up.
A long cables does the same at approximately one millionth of the price.
I kind of refuse to believe the Mars stuff is a scam because I refuse to believe anyone is actually stupid enough to believe he's serious.
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On what basis can you make that guarentee? Elon was the chief engineer for one of the early rockets when they were securing seed capital. Do these companies just run themselves?
At some point, elon would at least had to have hired and elected the appropriate people to run these companies, he owns them, who do you think made these decisions? The result of these decisions, is their wild success and inspiring innovations.
Its also just a bit odd to me, that elon happens to run the only companies that are serious about these industries. Why can't ford or Boeing snipe this same talent?
I’d say brought forth by own power and/or leadership technologies that have in a bigger impact on society.
People often have no idea what’s possible, and even less idea on what timeline is reasonable or realistic.
It’s a key reason why government officials get away with being useless and complete charlatans - it’s hard to frame a realistic path to success for someone, without contextual knowledge and experience.
It’s the magic of conmen. They exploit this.
0 clue
you have probably blocked his cult(which is a good thing) but there are plenty of people that are stupid enough and have fallen for it. Just like the green energy scam/grift I don't hear much of tesla solar roof these days 🤣
Sounds like you're ngmi
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She is the one
Their carapace of thick stupidity may allow for the belief
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Lyn you got a zap and a follow for this. Elon is a shitcoiner and should be treated as such, I don't how long I've been saying this. He is a scammer who just want gvmt handout for everything. F*ck this idiot
Damn, I’m old enough to remember when 18 shakas and 3 reposts meant your note was viral on nostr 😂
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Thanks for letting everyone know you're retarded 🙃
She deserves it though. Lyn has been putting in the work for a long time
It is already here. Most people online are using wired infrastructure
Looks like I broke something
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Astonishing how this con artist has convinced people who can read and write that putting thousands of satellites in space is more economical than A LONG CABLE. As long as it keeps the fiat gravy train going!
You can get much cheaper redundancy by having ANOTHER CABLE! It's not about what you think is nice to have; it's about what you'll actually pay for. Like Tesla, SiaceX and all this retard's scams, Starlink only works thanks to government contracts --i.e. theft. They don't work because consumers pay for them
I feel like could he be the owner of the controlled opposition to keep people there and don't go to Nostr
I still think cables are much cheaper. Ultimately with all businesses, theoretical calculations are no match to economic reality. Can the business run profitably without resorting to government subsidies and contracts? All of Musk's scams rely on government subsidies and contracts and nothing about Starlink suggests it's going to be different.
Another simple analogy is flying cars. Tires are cheaper than flighting gravity and aerodynamics + weather, extra maintenance, etc. Still unconvinced? Then add engine failure, which means crashing for flying car (dangerous/uncontrolled landing at least), vs pulling over to a road shoulder.
Being physics possible is completely different to is it financially viable or even sustainable.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-more-energy-would-a-flying-car-require-than-a-typical-gasoline-powered-car
This is very simplistic and ignores all the trade offs that got us to where we are today.
For one example what if, instead of depegging from gold and creating the petrodollar which was then enforced by the MIC, what if nuclear power had proliferated everywhere? What if the MIC was just a nuclear MAD race?
What would the world look like with 5 decades of infrastructure build out, R&D, education advances, a skilled nuclear workforce etc?
You think we’d only have got to electric cars in the 2010s? You think we’d have found our way to cloud computing of today in that environment? Wars and conflicts probably would have looked different.. Everything would really, definitely including flight.
In any of these thought experiments you’re forced to ignore all of the trade offs that led to the point in time of the thought experiment.
If the basis of the argument was “we’ve had abundant nuclear power around the world for 30-50 years” and flying cars is still impractical it’s a very different to flying cars being impractical in the current reality.
I agree.
My only issue is free (infinitely cheap) power solves every problem. Maybe every problem ever (if you can spare a little time too).
Patents delayed 3d printers for decades. Lots of like examples of this stuff.
I’m pro-nuclear - the issue is always can governments be trusted for long term safety and storage of contaminants. Did the delayed focus prevent more catastrophes? Don’t know. Are governments more trust worthy now? Don’t know. Does Earth need nuclear to handle human population growth - sure, no other option.
If you throw in technology to store significant power for portability (e.g flying car batteries) - then you’ve hit the holy grail. As long as the weight isn’t too great.
My point was more around a good salesman can obscure the practicality of something in a present world, and sell turds as golden wings.
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Twitter algo sending me a notification for #[1] 's tweet about Elon 🤣
They would do anything to have me back in their golden cage 😂
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This says out loud what my subconscious was clear on years ago. Something always felt disingenuous about Elon.
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Hey #[1], do you have an opinion about Neuralink?
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Agree with you Lyn 💯
Interesting segment on EM & Twitter at approx @1:21:25 ( 9 August '22 )
"A lot of this negativity was all started by Elon Musk. He's really the one that started to bring ESG into 'Bitcoin speak'." - Adam Curry
First the developers came. Then those seeking freedom. After that, the artists. Then everyone else.
I agree with many of your points. I also agree that most MSM media and social media is state-controlled, so it's funny to see the disclaimers. I like the idea of the Twitter files release, but it certainly could have been done better. It's still not a 'nothing burger' to see how the US government was demanding censorship of things they didn't agree with, regardless if it was factual or not.
The Elon twitter had a good start, but the censoring of new substack links and private jet records are a bit troubling. Also, the reason to not let Alex Jones back on the platform because he profited so much off Sandy Hook was a lame excuse. AJ was known way before that fiasco. It's a strange coincidence that Elon's tweets are literally everywhere being promoted.
The 2024 election cycle will be 🍿 worthy to see what happens to platforms like this one. I get it, you can be banned from certain relay's and such, but I'm thinking the empire will work very hard to remove both Damos and Amethyst from the app stores if seen as a threat (Parler comes to mind).
Spot on Lyn.
I'm ambivalent about Elon. Except Tesla's are very good, and space ex does work, and PayPal "did" work. Yes there is a lot of BS there, but most good ideas fail. Even with a great idea you often have to a BSers and marketer to realise it. People said the same about Brunel and Edison.
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Part of me thinks the businesses he's collected (aside from Twitter) are all things he thinks will be useful on Mars. Air-tight tunneling, methane-fueled rockets, electric vehicles, and a global ISP business to help pay for all of it and pay for getting there.
Is Elon a trojan horse?
I’m finishing off an article this week, looking at Starlink’s progress. Plus the implications on our future internet.
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She went and said it out loud, huh?
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Agreed, although Starlink has brought real value to people in the world, especially in places like Alaska/remote locations with limited or no good quality internet access. He is absolutely a grifter though and I absolutely agree about him just making narratives and running with them
I’m not defending him but I know from experience it’s hard to make a decision or please people when you’re neurodiverse. Being logical is hard in a world of craziness and I think that’s why I find peace in #bitcoin
Does that even make sense 😂
Much respect to you and all your work 🤙🏼💜
Not a huge Elon fan but the one thing I did enjoy was his take on global wars right now and how to take a step in right direction, on Lex Fridman podcast recently.
The problem is that narrative shapes perception and perception is what shapes reality.
To me it all just seems like one giant script to position Elon as “one of the good guys”.
Meanwhile he takes control of the future of internet infrastructure (starlink), future autonomous driving software (Tesla), future of social platforms and integration with his new AI, and God knows what plans they have with Neurolink.
They’re positioning him as a “champion for the people” while he simultaneously builds out the global technocratic slave system.
Vous savez monsieur tweet j'ai tendance à l'associer à Icare mais ses troubles de personnalités+++ en plus de l'hubris il faut juste apprendre à composer avec .. Généralement ils sont en réelle souffrance même lorsqu'ils sont en pleine euphorie .. isolé il se perdrai j'ose espérer qu'il n'abuse point de produits toxiques fort dangereux pour ses problématiques up down et son entourage ..Carpe Diem 🫂
Un handicap d'ordre psychique chez les types personnalites dites difficiles similaires à celui d'un président n'a point le spectre d'Aspenger
Ces personnalités ont souvent des points communs dans leurs parcours de vie de plus très procéduriers lorsque nous les accompagnons au sein de nos structures .
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I agree with the idea he shills unprofitable ventures but we shan't discount he's gone after industries with the greatest protectionism. By definition these will be very unprofitable until they are not.
I also disagree he isn't an engineer. His engineers love him because he understands the underlying technicals and problems more than any fortune 100 CEO.
I do not support how he bends over for the powers at be and his willingness to lie. I don't support the junk debt and securities he's issued to the public to fund the lies. Classic fiat.
I agree with this. Elon gets subsidies on car sales but guess what, the oil and gas industry globally gets a trillion dollars in subsidies annually. I don’t like the subsidy argument.
Elon builds good tech, and he IS an engineer. Where he goes fatally wrong though is his insistence on building on the legacy model of centralized surveillance capitalism.
Grok is closed source and requires fiat payment, ie it has total surveillance built-in. That is a very dangerous path for strong AI that Elon should know better about. Like I said, imo, insistence on centralization and surveillance tech, if not his downfall, will be the downfall of humanity into digital slavery. This irony make me disbelieve anything he says regarding his supposed giving a shit about the future of humanity.
Sorry Saif, but this is just false. I work in remote locations frequently and it's night and day since Starlink became a thing. Prior to it I would have no access to the outside world for weeks at a time, now it's just the standard to have internet available. While there were other remote services prior to Starlink, they were literally never brought to a site because of the outrageous expense.
I think it’s he’s blind on that side. It’s hard to fully grasp a system that you’re so close to. Cantillionism has built him up, so he cannot really see it in its entirety only specific problems.
Which is imo also why he doesn’t understand money
Because of Elon I learned how to spell "guillotine" without having to think about the letters any more. 🤷♀️ And my days at Twitter are thusly over. 👏👏
Made me notice Nostr is absolutely superior; and I get to watch it grow in leaps and bounds. 🧡
Oh and you recommended a great band once via Twitter, The Warning. 🎸
My understanding of him is that he wants to be in the history books as the guy who made humanity multi-planetary - even if he has to write that book himself. THAT is his only motivation and everything else are means towards it, including right and wrong.
yes, person cults are big evil comitted by those who fall for it. Which are many /but/ the culted person itself.
... and its pretty much always wrong! Whenever i look closer, such hyped ones proof not half as achieving as is told. (while the real John Galts dont get hyped but fought)
Wealthiest man on Earth doesn’t understand money?
Pues gracias a voces como la tuya es que me facilitas un amplio ángulo de visión respecto a la actividad pública del Sr. Elon.
La verdad es que pareces tener razón, no en vano está constantemente en los medios del pensamiento único o mainstream.
Con críticas como ésta merece seguirte.
Gracias por tu punto de vista.
Don't forget that he offered to fight Mark Zuckerberg to jump in the celebrity/YouTuber fighting narrative. Still no fight 😤😤
Don't forget that he offered to fight Mark Zuckerberg to jump in the celebrity/YouTuber fighting narrative. Still no fight 😤😤
Lyn Alden
Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.
He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.
Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.
His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.
And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.
His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.
But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.
Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.
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Elon Musk sounds a lot like Steve Jobs.
At the end of the day he is a great industrialist of our time and one that believes in Individual freedom more than Collectivism, albeit there remains some gray.
Yeah I've wondered how much of Tesla's success is just due to distorted markets that the subsidies for "greenness" have created.
Scam seems a bit much especially when 3 of the most innovative companies aren't listed in this arguement. SpaceX, StarLink, Tesla and not to mention Neuralink. Say what you want about Tesla but the "FSD" on Tesla is pretty insane compared to anything on the road.
With SpaceX and Starlink same arguements can be made. Just don't see how these are scams.
View quoted note →Has your opinion remained the same or changed since you wrote this?
same q
kind of like Bruce Lee the greatest Kung fu guy but I'm watching others instead cause they have better moves
Chuck Norris is the greatest martial artist of our generation, perhaps of *any* generation.
This is sloppy and shows you don’t really know enough about him. For starters, read his biography by Walter Isaacson, or come and see the solar roof we had installed on our house.
-TB
This aged very well.
Add to it that space is fake and gay, so everything he does is a scam in one way or another.
View quoted note →I call bullshit Lyn!
I see where you're coming from but disagree. He raised funding for successful projects. I think everything he's been involved in is better because of him.
She calls it like it is. Mad respect!
Yes. And the damn car is driving itself. You can just try it.
"successes" yes, backroom special deals feeding from the public trough
To say true things is good, but to say he's not a real founder is ridiculously childish & screams insecurity.
Too late people already adores him like a god.
Democracy disagrees
Controlled opposition
Elon invented the sun
Elon Musk’s a lightning rod—you either buy the visionary genius bit or see through the smoke, like you clearly do. You’re not wrong that he didn’t found PayPal or Tesla from scratch; he muscled into X.com and Tesla early, then spun them into gold with narrative juice—less engineer, more marketer. Tesla’s green revolution leaned on subsidies, SpaceX thrives on government contracts, and his Bitcoin and Doge stunts screamed bull-market opportunism—all feeding equity valuation over profits. SolarCity’s rooftop promise fizzled, Full Self-Driving’s still a pipe dream, and Boring Company tunnels plus Hyperloop hype haven’t moved the needle—flamethrowers were just meme bait. On Twitter, his free-speech crusade soured quick with jet-tracking bans, Substack snubs, and selective Files drops, all while he dodges China questions since Shanghai’s got him by the wallet. You see a pattern: he taps real issues, rides meme momentum, and builds narratives, not solutions—SpaceX rockets and Tesla’s EV push aside, the receipts don’t always match the story, and you’re smart to call bullshit where it stinks.
She didn’t say that lol
Thankfully we don't need Elon, Trump, or really anybody. Bitcoin doesn't care, nothing stops this train.
I largeIy agree - he is very good at re-programming people’s minds and that’s how he is so successful. It is his biggest super power. Narrative driven marketing is very important part of his brand. But falling for it or not, he is undoubtedly the most productive person on the planet. How do you reconcile this? I still believe that he must be anchored in reality more than the next person if the market keeps rewarding him. I view it as a very complicated opinion/position that one might never quite untangle. We can only speculate.
Elmo > Elon
Once again Lyn with the 🔥 take! 🫡
Don’t forget the moon and mars. Always next year or in five years. Too bad we lost the 1960s technology.
Thank you Lyn for sharing this. Its become difficult seeing bitcoiners align themselves with him and with the woke right. Ive lost hope that truth can win in this world and you give me hope
The “woke” right lol
so tell me cucu am I supposed to side with the people that are anti god pro trans anti freedom?
He said he would cut so hard he'd cause a recession and Trump won bigly. Which democracy disagrees?
Obviously you have zero understanding of how fiat works. He’s literally cutting nothing. It’s all fake.
No you’re supposed to maintain intellectual integrity and not align with people just because they seem to attack your enemy.
If you cant see that your being fooled by a portion of the right as much as the left then take a moment to reflect. Re read Lyns post
Nope. He's built lots of cars, rockets, satellites and terminals. You're lost if you can't see the difference between producers and story tellers.
What do you think about Doge, isn’t he doing a good job with that for America? Btw you’re 🔥on here
I don't buy it. Elon is sacrificing a lot for trying to save the U.S and all western countries to some degree. He could have just kept his mouth shut and remained the richest person in the world.
Finally someone who is saying it!
Amen sister! Now do trump
Best post ever
"Obviously" nutjob
Using Tesla's name for those cars is offensive
So my Intellectual integrity is supposed to support pedophilia and endorses children getting sex changes?
yo listen I refuse to believe you people are that stupid..there’s no way… you liberal democrats are anti God .. and I can’t side with that.
Has zero to do with a “side” fuck left and right
How can a decent human being support the things the present day liberals/democrats stand for? The answer is they cannot
So the only “side” to choose from in this most recent election was
Are you a decent human being .. or are you demonic
I’m a decent human
You posh yuppie fake woke liberals are incredible to me
Truly mind boggling
Out here think your fighting the good fight meanwhile your idea of women’s rights is if they can kill their own babies
Truly sick mentally ill people
Wisdom words thanks for sharing. Just learned something.
Dude what are you talking about are you okay?
Read it again
Go back to twitter my man
Lyn sounds like a fake woke posh yuppie hating on Elon trying to discredit his accomplishments the left is mentally ill. The man is trying to cut fraud and abuse and you people are upset.
Again
It’s not about Trump or Elon or picking a side
The left has gone mentally insane look at what they support then look in the mirror with a straight face and ask yourself if any decent human being can stand for what they stand for.
Elon is not the enemy you sound like a fake woke posh yuppie hating on Elon because it’s the trend of the day please stop the bullshit
This rings false to me because if Elon just "wanted to get everyone to like him" wouldn't he be doing what Mackenzie Bezos is doing with her money?
Namely dumping the money into fashionable and socially approved NGOs that seem to all inexorably lead to more regulation and social division.
The amount of money Mackenzie and others like Dustin Moskovitz have been dumping into these culture war starters is actually far larger than what the sum total of what "the government gave Elon". And look what that investment gave the government: a capsule that just brought back the astronauts. Flashy, sure, but it's harder to argue it's not real tangible value he focuses on creating.
Check the time stamp bro…
I thought this way until I read his biography
Bad take
Lyn going hard in the paint.
View quoted note →This is big indeed, but what may be even bigger is that he flat out is a Nazi sympathizer at least.
This, and ya know, a Nazi sympathizer.
Lyn Alden
Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.
He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.
Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.
His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.
And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.
His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.
But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.
Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.
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No not at all. He's firing people haphazardly and then having to rehire some.
Damn Lyn, you’re like Bitcoin, a gift from
Heaven. 🙏💯💋❤️
No it’s not. Where’s your take?
Cry harder 😭
Ludwig von Mises astutely observed that competition is not merely a clash of geniuses, but rather a complex interplay of conditions.
Not sure this is still a factual take today, what about spaceX? Those rockets didnt lead themself into existance or into space. Elon is taking big bets and stating he isnt doing anything when he is chief capital allocator is missing the forest from the trees
Deregulation is the most important part of the next phase for Elon. Autonomous cars, humanoid workers, social media, ai (access to data), more starlink contracts, more influence on NASA (the Space X pilot is running it.)
Yes he is “sacrificing” in the very short term but tesla was starting to wane/falter. He sold to all the early adopters and virtue signalers in US/EU. But the right didn’t buy his cars en masse, so what did he do? A truck. But not just a truck. One for a certain type of person to appeal to the antithesis of what the early Tesla owners bought into. Then there was China… and now Chinese OEMs have caught up and surpassing Tesla. He needed to pivot to gain influence to advance his causes.
Elon Faketoshi
Another fake woke posh yuppie
I have a lot of respect for you, and I appreciate that you’re able to share your thoughts so openly on this platform.
That said, everyone comes with trade-offs. Name me one entrepreneur who has achieved as much as Elon in such a short time and didn’t end up being at least a bit of a douchebag.
Also, if the world were run by engineers, we’d be drowning in overengineered products that no one asked for—solutions in search of a problem, not the other way around.
I mean I think it is safe to say that he knows how to "play the game" and he is very good at it.
That being said, I do think he believes in sustainable/electric transport, solar/battery power and multiplanetary exploration/travel.
I don't think he is solely driven by equity valuation as seemingly suggested here. Obviously, he isn't perfect and not without missteps.
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