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> I'm sure most of us want to launch him into the sun I'm wondering what makes you so sure about it and why you are so eager to project your own opinion into
by pxtail 4y ago
> I'm sure most of us want to launch him into the sun
I'm wondering what makes you so sure about it and why you are so eager to project your own opinion into "most of us"
My personal opinion is that whole twitter drama is really unimportant, yes, twitter is unimportant. Other kind of advancements: Tesla which sparked EV movement, batteries, spacex - materialized grand visions moving forward the world as whole.
TBH I'm kind of puzzled about negative perception about him - especially when it comes from his countrymen because I think that US really gets a lot of value added thanks to him (I'm not from US so might not "read the room" well enough) - looking objectively his companies brought to US hundred of thousands of jobs and not only this kind where selected few at the top in the SV benefits the most - apart form software/design/services positions in hard, modern, advanced manufacturing appeared as well.
And it seems like he is a human like most of us and makes mistakes sometimes.
- gamblor956 4y agoOther kind of advancements: Tesla which sparked EV movement, batteries, spacex - materialized grand visions moving forward the world as whole. It's not like Toyota popularized efficient cars, or Chevy popularized EVs with the EV1, or California incentivized EVs with credits and HOV access, or Panasonic made the batteries for every model of Tesla sold to date... Oh wait. All of those things happened. Musk's only accomplishment is taking credit for the work of others.
- flippinburgers 4y agoTesla is the reason that EVs are even going anywhere. The amount of foot dragging by car companies was frustrating to watch for years on end.
- psd1 4y agoI don't think that's fair. He made EVs desirable, he's reduced space launch cost by a factor of ten, and I've benefited greatly from PayPal. His deficiencies as a tech leader are on show at twitter, his involvement with twitter is a result of his bone-headed arrogance, and he's a complete tool who owes his success to family money as much as to his own talent, but his achievements stand nonetheless.
- gamblor956 4y agoSpaceX used plans and research originally performed by NASA, which NASA was unable to implement due to congressional interference. And Paypal's tech and business model that you benefited from was from Thiel's X.com. Paypal used literally none of Musk's tech or business model. Musk did such a bad job running Paypal that they fired him for cause (which is one of the reasons that Musk is always trying to fire his own executives for-cause).