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I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other peop
by twawaaay 4y ago
I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world.
What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy.
- axlee 4y agoYou should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.
- tamaharbor 4y agoOr a very small fraction of a volcano.
- pedrossmelo 4y agoLmao "at least elon's jet is not a volcano"
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoYou can say that about anyone, suddenly pollution is then non-issue.
- tamaharbor 4y agoWe need to adapt to climate change, rather than try and stop it, which is probably impossible.
- Geezus-42 4y agoWe need to do both. Change is coming, no stopping that, but how much change we can effect.
- jamiegreen 4y agoAs an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.
- gregoriol 4y agoConsidering SpaceX, definitely not.
- _5uxp 4y agolets not talk about how he lead the electric car revolution, that's just a huge positive thing.
- arrrg 4y agoJury‘s still out on that, mostly because it‘s still up for debate whether replacing gas cars 1:1 with electric cars is a good idea. I don’t doubt that we actually need electric cars, the important question is just whether that’s all we need or whether we need other transformations (radically fewer cars and less space for cars in cities, for example). This second goal is something Elon has actively worked against, for example with his Hyperloop bullshit.
- itsoktocry 4y ago>As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined. This is such a terrible mindset. So we're going to allow the rich to do whatever damage they want to the environment, personally, if they construct widgets that are slightly less harmful than the next best widget? It's this sort of hypocrisy that prevents people from buying in to the environmental movement: celebrities lecturing the rest of us while they don't alter their lifestyle one iota. The proletariat will never accept it.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoif you ignore spacex maybe
- immmmmm 4y agobecause sport EV for the rich is "net positive environmental impact"???
- oblio 4y ago> I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world. > What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy. Turns out, you should care about both. First of all, his private jet costs as much as a yacht, plus he doesn't own a yacht just because he rents them... > While Musk famously owns a $70 million private jet, he hasn't sprung for a yacht of his own (unlike his space rival, Jeff Bezos). Instead, the group chartered a vessel — called Zeus which rents for over $7,000 a day. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-yacht-photos-greece-zeus-superyacht-2022-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-yacht-photos-greec...
- ceejayoz 4y agoRenting yachts seems like a great mitigation to me. One yacht can service dozens of billionaires' 1-2 week vacations without sitting around in port useless 90% of the time.
- jxf 4y agoIs it just me or does $7,000/day actually sound very cheap? That's the nightly rate of, say, the nicest suite in a top-end hotel, but for a whole yacht. Maybe that doesn't include crew (besides the skipper, which the article says is included), fuel, food, etc.?
- shapefrog 4y agoI think they have either the wrong boat or it wasnt a superyacht in the first place. EUR 750k to 2mil per week is the sort of pricing I see for charter.