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Musk is invaluable to humanity at this juncture. He serves as a constant reminder that billionaires (and those with power in general) view everyone else as obs

Musk is invaluable to humanity at this juncture. He serves as a constant reminder that billionaires (and those with power in general) view everyone else as obstacles to their personal preferences, which they perceive as objective truth. After all, how could they get so rich and powerful if they weren’t the best at being? Surely they know what is best for the rest. Play-things, pets, wards, nuisances, parasites, or pests. Billionaires aren’t all the same, how (or if) they consider their lessers can vary as much as their food preferences. (They can pay for food that mere mortals have never dreamed of! That’s a lot of variety.)

pfdietz 4y ago
And yet, there he was, pushing through technological achievements that others failed at. Audacity can be very valuable.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  veiled capitalist realism as in hey it’s not perfect but it’s what works at the end of the day, without considering there might be better ways that the people under musk who did the work could get their “assets allocated” in his words or their otherwise capability to do this work without this specific type of extract and dominate structure needed to get there
  - pfdietz 4y ago
    You'd be making a good argument if people anywhere else had been doing the things he's succeeded at. You really seem to be torqued that he wasn't perfect.
- catchnear4321 4y ago
  And yet there he was, fighting against technological advancements by feigning enthusiasm, because he didn’t like those things. Audacity can be very volatile. A billionaire (or anyone at that level of power and influence) could be the singularity if only they stopped gratifying their egos by trying to be the first to build one.
  - pfdietz 4y ago
    Who cares? He can fight against things all he wants, that won't make any difference. If something makes sense his petulant behavior won't hold it back. Creating things that satisfy real demands, that push technology to a new state, that's what lasts.
    - catchnear4321 4y ago
      Undoubtedly the technology is unharmed by the ego that wills it to be. So, yes, I care. The implication is I should not, but why not? The devaluation of care is rotting society. No matter how shiny it may get.

pfdietz 4y ago

And yet, there he was, pushing through technological achievements that others failed at. Audacity can be very valuable.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
veiled capitalist realism as in hey it’s not perfect but it’s what works at the end of the day, without considering there might be better ways that the people under musk who did the work could get their “assets allocated” in his words or their otherwise capability to do this work without this specific type of extract and dominate structure needed to get there
- pfdietz 4y ago
  You'd be making a good argument if people anywhere else had been doing the things he's succeeded at. You really seem to be torqued that he wasn't perfect.
catchnear4321 4y ago
And yet there he was, fighting against technological advancements by feigning enthusiasm, because he didn’t like those things. Audacity can be very volatile. A billionaire (or anyone at that level of power and influence) could be the singularity if only they stopped gratifying their egos by trying to be the first to build one.
- pfdietz 4y ago
  Who cares? He can fight against things all he wants, that won't make any difference. If something makes sense his petulant behavior won't hold it back. Creating things that satisfy real demands, that push technology to a new state, that's what lasts.
  - catchnear4321 4y ago
    Undoubtedly the technology is unharmed by the ego that wills it to be. So, yes, I care. The implication is I should not, but why not? The devaluation of care is rotting society. No matter how shiny it may get.