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Honestly, I suspect he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs. If that's the case, it's not a bad strategy. They're easy to

Honestly, I suspect he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs. If that's the case, it's not a bad strategy. They're easy to manipulate into thinking you're on their side if you say the right soundbites. And they're the toughest group of consumers to get on the green tech train. Musk could be acting as a chameleon in an attempt to simply get some of them to accept the reality of climate change.

aaronbrethorst 4y ago
I think it's much more likely that the explanation is adjacent to Hanlon's razor.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs The GOP is on track to take Congress. There is a decent chance they hold that through 2024. American politics have swung against “wokeism,” or rather, since I haven’t seen a good definition for that term, leaders who identify with “woke” cultural figures. SpaceX sells to the government. Tesla relies on the government. He’s aligning with the new political winds.
- mc32 4y ago
  I don't think it's that. The government doesn't have an emporium to buy things from. Sometimes they have a real choice like between Amazon and Azure, but most of the time it's one vendor and a few far second place hopefuls.
  - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
    > most of the time it's one vendor and a few far second place hopefuls Sure. But having the appropriations committee pissed off at you can curtail the sorts of funds they give e.g. NASA, or the caveats they add to it.
- Covzire 4y ago
  All this talk about "inclusivity" that woke-inc preach is the mother of all red herrings. It's labor laws that keep things inclusive and accessible for all. What the left has been doing with great success is taking over HR departments and enacting new corporate rules that A) go well beyond the law B) are exclusively left-wing de jour and C) extremely authoritarian. I know, their claims are the exact opposite, which is why they've been so successful at sweeping into HR departments but the writing is on the wall: letting far left activists take control of HR will mean one thing with absolute certainty: Morale will plummet and profitability will go right after it.

aaronbrethorst 4y ago

I think it's much more likely that the explanation is adjacent to Hanlon's razor.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> he's just trying to appease conservatives to make them more likely to buy EVs The GOP is on track to take Congress. There is a decent chance they hold that through 2024. American politics have swung against “wokeism,” or rather, since I haven’t seen a good definition for that term, leaders who identify with “woke” cultural figures. SpaceX sells to the government. Tesla relies on the government. He’s aligning with the new political winds.

mc32 4y ago
I don't think it's that. The government doesn't have an emporium to buy things from. Sometimes they have a real choice like between Amazon and Azure, but most of the time it's one vendor and a few far second place hopefuls.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > most of the time it's one vendor and a few far second place hopefuls Sure. But having the appropriations committee pissed off at you can curtail the sorts of funds they give e.g. NASA, or the caveats they add to it.
Covzire 4y ago
All this talk about "inclusivity" that woke-inc preach is the mother of all red herrings. It's labor laws that keep things inclusive and accessible for all. What the left has been doing with great success is taking over HR departments and enacting new corporate rules that A) go well beyond the law B) are exclusively left-wing de jour and C) extremely authoritarian. I know, their claims are the exact opposite, which is why they've been so successful at sweeping into HR departments but the writing is on the wall: letting far left activists take control of HR will mean one thing with absolute certainty: Morale will plummet and profitability will go right after it.