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People’s issue isn’t with Musk trying to help, it’s Musk trying to help as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt. If Elon Musk has reached out quietly to the Thai gov
by Itaxpica 8y ago
People’s issue isn’t with Musk trying to help, it’s Musk trying to help as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt. If Elon Musk has reached out quietly to the Thai government and asked what he could do with his resources and connections to help, THAT would have been using his resources for good. Throwing a bunch of your money at a cool-sounding but absolutely useless project that nobody asked for while making a lot of noise on Twitter about how helpful you are is pure self-aggrandizement, and that’s what people are reacting to.
- jonhendry18 8y ago"absolutely useless project that nobody asked for" The rescue effort started earlier than expected, so there wasn't time to iterate on the design. There's plenty to criticize Musk for but it's dumb to comment if you don't know the sequence of events.
- thisacctforreal 8y agoPlease limit the amount of duplicate comments.
- compcoffee 8y agoOne of the rescuers said it wouldn't have got 50 ft and that Musk had no clue what it was like in the cave. Pure PR, just like a bunch of us said in many threads about his submarine heroics on this site. Sorry you couldn't see through it.
- jeksus 8y agoHe is Musk. He is under the media radar. It's kind difficult for him to do thing quietly. Also, he initially didn't want to help >I suspect that the Thai govt has this under control, but I’m happy to help if there is a way to do so https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1014509856777293825 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1014509856777293825