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I don't think Musk had a game plan for this level of net negative outcome. If he has a long range plan, it must span beyond this session of government and he ha
by ggm 1y ago
I don't think Musk had a game plan for this level of net negative outcome. If he has a long range plan, it must span beyond this session of government and he has significant risk in a change in party controlling the system.
It's easy for me to be critical, both because he's distant and because I have no skin in the game. That noted, I think his genius status was misapplied, unearned, and his lack of visible empathy for the real world makes this important: he is a powerful foolish man, he isn't a constructive force at the moment. He's sucking a lot of value out of the system.
- rsynnott 1y agoHonestly I'd just assume he didn't realise how badly this was going to go. After all, if he can go to Mars, build hypersonic vactrains, and cars that can drive across the US unaided in 2016, why should he not be able to reorganise the government? I assume the same levels of delusion applied here as in all his other endeavours.
- Zigurd 1y agoI started criticizing Elon's management style because I thought the way he was running in the Starship project was unlikely to work well. Not because it was a bad rocket necessarily. It was a badly run rocket project. When you're developing an app, there's plenty of things you can figure out on your way to completing the project. Less so for the biggest rocket ever.