But the rockets were just a means to embezzle public funds and privatize what should be publicly owned.
Likewise with Tesla. Yuppie product too expensive for anyone without a government subsidy. If anything Tesla killed the electric car market in the West by having car companies over invest too early. Now all the good EVs will come from China. Nevermind all the ewaste and environment problems it created.
Hyperloop and the boring company existed to derail mass transit projects so people keep buying cars.
The grift was just under the surface the whole time. Guy genuinely fucked it up for everyone.
No one can fault you for not seeing it mid teens though. Still I had many friends in their 20s just simping for the guy and his companies while being ostensibly progressive… which just puts them on my shitlist for a long time.
Listened to people argue there was no reason not to buy a Model 3 or even S (the 3 wasnt out yet) because it was “so affordable”. That’s BMW money, gtfo. Tesla sold so many cars to people who never planned to own a car in the first place.
yeah I think some of this is stretching on the negative. it was about time for rocket reuse to be a thing and us car companies were late to the game in my opinion (especially with hybrids as an in between). The solar shingles are a good thing but he was trying to prop up a failing company at that point. I think boring is fine theoretically but it sounded like it was going to dig tunnels cheaper and I see no real indication of this. The hyperloop is stupid.
But the rockets were just a means to embezzle public funds and privatize what should be publicly owned.
Likewise with Tesla. Yuppie product too expensive for anyone without a government subsidy. If anything Tesla killed the electric car market in the West by having car companies over invest too early. Now all the good EVs will come from China. Nevermind all the ewaste and environment problems it created.
Hyperloop and the boring company existed to derail mass transit projects so people keep buying cars.
The grift was just under the surface the whole time. Guy genuinely fucked it up for everyone.
No one can fault you for not seeing it mid teens though. Still I had many friends in their 20s just simping for the guy and his companies while being ostensibly progressive… which just puts them on my shitlist for a long time.
Listened to people argue there was no reason not to buy a Model 3 or even S (the 3 wasnt out yet) because it was “so affordable”. That’s BMW money, gtfo. Tesla sold so many cars to people who never planned to own a car in the first place.
yeah I think some of this is stretching on the negative. it was about time for rocket reuse to be a thing and us car companies were late to the game in my opinion (especially with hybrids as an in between). The solar shingles are a good thing but he was trying to prop up a failing company at that point. I think boring is fine theoretically but it sounded like it was going to dig tunnels cheaper and I see no real indication of this. The hyperloop is stupid.