"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and yo

"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!" Musk is a sad, spiteful man, with more money than sense. Of course money can make things happen, but Musk isn't his engineers. He's a bad, bad man who is worshiped by legions of equally bad nerds who just go around making everyone's day worse. More than that, he sells a story of an imaginary way to get out of the spiral of collapse created by many men, just like him, who came before him. He sells false hope, a road-side prophet. This false hope he sells has convinced enough people to effectively derail any possibility of fundamental societal change that would enable the population at large to live relatively comfortable lives. If we just keep consuming, eventually we can consume on Mars! Infinite growth is physically impossible, yet the world we live in keeps charging forward assuming infinite growth is mandatory and will never go away. It's impossible to work towards stability when the only thing that keeps society running is a lie built on a jenga foundation. Musk is simply the annoying talking statue that represents all of that, and he's really. Fucking. Annoying.