I suspect Musk will (or has) moved on from Tesla to Twitter/X, SpaceX and his other, fully owned businesses. Asperger syndrome is something I first heard when he was on Saturday Night Live. Later, his biography mentioned it. But it reads like what we used to call "Idiot Savant." A type of autism where technical brilliance is married with a near total disregard for others. When Elon started at Tesla, his efforts were for EVs and later, renewable energy. Those were popular back then. He has succeeded brilliantly and he received well deserved, public acclaim. But then he got in feud with the SEC about Twitter postings and he found others willing to give him acclaim from a different point of view. When people claim Elon is the richest man on Earth, they are looking at the shares he owns and current price. But that price is a popularity contest between the buyers and sellers. The intrinsic worth of Tesla is smaller. But now at Tesla he has new products that do not appeal to me: (1) Optimus robot, (2) Cybertruck, and (3) the semi-tractor. In effect, he is moving Tesla towards customers who are not me. I appreciate the incidental improvements of Full Self Driving (FSD) and my 2019 Model 3. But these seem 'weak' to me. For example, the latest 2025 Model 3 gets the same "25 kWh/100 mi" as my 2019 Model 3. Certainly FSD is much improved since November 2024 but it still makes mistakes. When I see him enjoying the "borrowed" popularity of our sociopath in chief, I see someone who tries to follow what is popular at the moment. He certainly enjoys technical achievements but borrowed fame is fleeting. Just ask the ghost of Richard Nixon. Bob Wilson
I learned only recently that he has Canadian citizenship, due to his mother being born in Saskatchewan. So of course there's now a movement afoot to revoke it...https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elon-musk-citizenship-petition-1.7466278
I agree with the first half of your post. The quoted part I don’t. I agree that Musk doesn’t care about people. However, I also don’t believe he cares, or is swayed by what people think. Electric cars certainly weren’t popular when he first got involved with Tesla. That said, he is an engineer. He seems to identify a problem and then go after it with phenomenal results. His drive is impressive. Sadly, he has gotten sucked into extreme right conspiracy theories and is now working against some of his own accomplishments.
He us not an engineer. He is a master of grifting, fraud and dark finance. Beyond that; he is a psychopath. Hitler's drive was impressive, too.
Musk has degrees in Physics and Economics. He is not an engineer by training, but has shown multiple times that he can successfully lead engineering efforts to develop state of the art products. JeffD
There is a big difference between pure and applied science. Production is totally different than synthesis in the laboratory. In the 1930's, I G Farben and Standard Oil had a working relationship to develop both synthetic oil and rubber. The US was never to produce either on an industrial scale, because I G Farben did not share the production process with Standard Oil and kept it their trade secret. There is a between being the synthesizer or invention and the marketer. The real Tesla was a great inventor and engineer, but a terrible marketer.
Munk is simply bringing his business techniques to government. How will it work out? Idk, they are entirely two different entities
Those regimes that run a society like a business are effectively doomed to failure. The NAZI regime considered certain groups as useless eaters and worked and starved them to death. These they referred to as the Untermensch. They referred to it as Todt durch albeit.
Leon offered a woman 15 million to have a baby with him, and $100,000. A month until the child turned 21. Musk asked influencer Tiffany Fong to have his baby and she worried saying ‘no’ would hurt her X earnings, report says
Fong, 31, has more than 335,000 followers on X and more than 48,000 subscribers on YouTube. She’s known for covering cryptocurrency . . . Somehow, it makes sense: Bob Wilson
Reflections of Musk? How about reflections of his followers? One day he's the savior of the world for having come out with the first feasible and mass produced EVs embraced by liberals...and the next day he's every negative adjective imaginable by the same liberals. Why...because he supports President Trump. Sounds like the real problem is those liberals to me.
That’s not really correct. People started changing their opinions of him a long time ago, his catastrophes at doge are just the icing on the cake
Your RIGHT; it has nothing to do with mass layoffs; gutting government agencies that protect the American people, getting rid of the government watch dogs that makes sure those same department are following the "rule of law" and audits the same. Almost forgot about buying votes in certain battle ground states. And he's not exposing all those same databases to our enemies???? This whistleblower needs to be careful; that government department has already been gutted. He may end up in El Salvador; if he lucky - pushing up daisies; if he's not so lucky. Just my 2-cents......
Leon can also ask for refugee status to stay in the USA, because this one flew in under the radar because of all the other noise.... Why is Trump giving white South Africans refugee status? The idea’s been cooking a while.
My timeline with Musk: 2017 - admiration when he quit advisory commission upon leaving the "Paris Accords" 2018 - slept at the plant to help manufacture my Model 3 2022 - bought Twitter/X and made it a misinformation channel 2023 - distracted to play the Asperger's fool to a sociopath As far as I'm concerned, Musk went nuts and there is no evidence of a John Nash recovery (see "A Beautiful Mind".) Bob Wilson
