Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[belboid]

Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says

it's still quite a big 'if' - two and a bit years of his stocks going up 110% pa. It's perfectly plausible, but its also perfectly plausible that they'll stall or fall depending on the extent to which his bullshit is called, China continues its EV & autonomous developments and who wins that election thingy.

I'm also a little surprised that it will have taken over a hundred years to go from the first billionaire to the first triliionaire

 

[Yossarian]

That report the Guardian cites seems pretty iffy - it's from some company that provides corporate training courses and they don't seem to have a lot of facts right

Tesla has a market cap of $669.28 B. However, its impressive growth rate, estimated to be growing annually at an average rate of 173.32%, means it should exceed $1 T in 2025.

Estimated by who? Tesla's stock is down 15% so far this year and it's down almost 50% from its peak in late 2021

 

[Yossarian]

They make it sound like Musk is getting richer every year on a path to inevitably becoming a trillionaire. The reality:

 

[kabbes]

Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says

What’s with the unrelated quotes from 2017 that you posted before the link?

 

[Chz]

They make it sound like Musk is getting richer every year on a path to inevitably becoming a trillionaire. The reality:

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There's the problem of people whose majority of wealth comes from a very narrow stock profile - Musk can't sell off his stake in Tesla in a short span without cratering the value of it. I think $120B of that $175B is entirely Tesla stock.

 

[teqniq]

This will be game over for a lot of individuals and also illegal in the EU to boot:

E2a very likely this is fake.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Yeah, the 1st amendment to that well known document - the world wide constitution.

 

[Santino]

This will be game over for a lot of individuals and also illegal in the EU to boot:

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Did he really post this?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Did he really post this?

No

 

[teqniq]

Did he really post this?

hmmm actually a lot of people are saying it is fake

 

[Santino]

hmmm actually a lot of people are saying it is fake

Is it fake? Is there some way you can establish the truth of this?

 

[teqniq]

Is it fake? Is there some way you can establish the truth of this?

I have him blocked but other ppl say they have searched his timeline and cannot find it. Others are very suspicious of the cropping so I think it's fairly safe to say at this point that it is fake.

 

[teuchter]

 

[two sheds]

Is that real?

 

[Santino]

Is that real?

A lot of people are saying that.

 

[a_chap]

Is that real?

It's obviously fake.

The price has an erroneous "bn" after it...

 

[JimW]

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Interesting.

 

[breadandcircuse]

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Don't know if I should be sharing this moron's intense cringe rather than ignoring but, well, here it is:

 

[breadandcircuse]

Don't know if I should be sharing this moron's intense cringe rather than ignoring but, well, here it is:

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Fucking pillock (Musk not you ).

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Fucking pillock (Musk not you ).

Sometimes I feel like a bit of a pillock, but then folks like Musk help me put it in perspective

 

[NoXion]

Sometimes I feel like a bit of a pillock, but then folks like Musk help me put it in perspective

He's one of the richest men in the entire gods-damned world. He could do things with his limited span in this life that 99% of the world's population could only ever dream of. Yet he spends it acting like a basement-dwelling social incompetent straight from 4chan.

I don't think there's anything that could more effectively demonstrate just how fundamentally broken Musk is as a person. It's incredible.

 

[petee]

Cybertruck Owner Brags About High-Tech Pedal That Makes Vehicle Accelerate When Pressed

LOS ANGELES—Praising the latest of the car’s bleeding-edge features that felt like they came from the future, Cybertruck owner Anselm Hart bragged to friends Monday about its high-tech pedal that makes the vehicle accelerate when pressed. “It’s this bonkers, next-level thing that lets you go...

theonion.com

Praising the latest of the car’s bleeding-edge features that felt like they came from the future, Cybertruck owner Anselm Hart bragged to friends Monday about its high-tech pedal that makes the vehicle accelerate when pressed. “It’s this bonkers, next-level thing that lets you go fast when push it down on it with your foot,” said the 36-year-old programmer, describing how he felt like “some sort cyberpunk bounty hunter” when he used his foot to apply pressure to a lever that increased the vehicle’s speed in proportion to how much he pressed the innovative device.

 

[Rob Ray]

Well ain't that the creepiest shit.

 

[NoXion]

 

[Rimbaud]

Well ain't that the creepiest shit.

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Wtf

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Wtf

It means he doesn't know how many kids he's got and doesn't show them any affection anyway, so he won't miss one.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Well ain't that the creepiest shit.

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This is the worst thing to ever take place on September 11 I can think of.*














* yes, even worse than Pinochet's coup.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Musk's daughter denounces his 'disgusting' 'heinous incel nonsense'

 

[editor]

Well ain't that the creepiest shit.

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Stomach-turningly creepy. What a piece of shit.