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Elon Musk's vision. Sure. I'll just leave next phrase summarizing it here: "We'll coup wherever we want, deal with it"
by one2three4 6y ago
Elon Musk's vision. Sure.
I'll just leave next phrase summarizing it here:
"We'll coup wherever we want, deal with it"
- arethuza 6y agoJust another variation on: "...the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" Thucydides
- astrange 6y agoThat was some kind of joke (he tweets on Ambien so the quality is pretty low.) People regularly accuse him of doing Bolivian coups for lithium or other things they just made up.
- one2three4 6y agoThere is fire to that smoke though. Bolibian rare earths was the main reason for the coup.
- astrange 6y agoThere was probably some of that in the financing of the coup, but what little I saw of the actual people doing it sounded more like culture war - they wanted to suppress indigenous culture and bring back Christianity, things like that. Note lithium isn't a rare earth element, it's actually pretty common but some sources are cheaper than others. As for Tesla, I believe they don't get lithium from Bolivia and have upcoming chemistries that don't use cobalt at all. Not sure about other EV or phone companies.