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Hogwash. People made similar arguments about Trump (i.e. that the liberal media was taking his words out of context). I could see both men's juvenile tweets a
by d23 4y ago
Hogwash. People made similar arguments about Trump (i.e. that the liberal media was taking his words out of context). I could see both men's juvenile tweets and judge for myself.
- mlindner 4y agoComparing him to Trump is pretty ridiculous. One is an inept politician while the other is possibly one of the greatest people to have ever lived.
- davidbarker 4y agoI’d be interested to hear your arguments about why you believe Musk is “possibly one of the greatest people to have ever lived“.
- mlindner 4y agoBecause he's almost single-handedly driven a fix to global warming and he will also vaunt our civilization on to other celestial bodies through the use of cheap space travel.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> a fix to global warming We fixed global warming?
- mlindner 4y agoWe're headed that way, as long as we don't somehow plateau on our improvement for some reason.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThat's a serious [citation needed] claim; even if everyone switched to electric vehicles tomorrow, that only accounts for 10-20% of global emissions, and we've gotta cut a lot more than that.
- mlindner 4y agoReducing the cost of batteries is one of the important things along that way. That allows many other things to be electrified.
- dekhn 4y agoyou're confusing his scifi future state with the present. He made a successful electric vehicle company (those vehicles still consume electricity, often made from burning gas or goal) and a successful space company (with better, but not "cheap" transport to space). Both are great things, but they don't qualify him as the greatest person in history. You're just hero-worshipping and you picked a pretty bad hero.
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y agoDude, TeamViewer and Zoom are doing more for global warming and it's not even a stated goal of the company. Stop looking at the showmanship and look at the crude numbers.
- mlindner 4y agoWork from home is a temporary thing that's going to be largely ending soon so their long term effect will be minimal. Face to face interaction is important for human communication.
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y agoHow are Teslas (which I remind you accounted for less than 1% of total vehicles sold globally in FY21) propelling a zero carbon face-to-face interaction?
- dubswithus 4y agoIt's not ending. Employees love work from home and talented workers in tech have real power.
- ModernMech 4y ago> Work from home is a temporary thing that's going to be largely ending soon Thanks in part to Elon Musk.
- boringg 4y agoPretty sure those technologies haven't stopped the flow of air travel recently. They just made business more efficient. You honestly can't try and equate this with Elon almost single handedly bring the EV car market to the planet. It either shows you are being disingenuous at best or ignorant in the subject matter at worse.
- dekhn 4y agoyes, combination of video and covid caused my company (in bay area) to stop flying large numbers of employees to the mothership (in basel). People used to go for a 2-day mini-conference (1 day to fly in, 2 on the ground, 1 to fly back) without even adjusting to local time zone. Entire business sections of planes reserved. Not anymore. Company is in top tier of profit margins.
- davidbarker 4y agoI would like to see a source for your first claim, and I think the only source for the second claim is Musk himself (and I don’t trust much of what he says).
- d23 4y agoAh. You're trolling. Got it.
- triceratops 4y agoNice try Elon.