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

I read a piece by him which started off saying that we need to get to Mars because Earth is going to be fucked.

So we do nothing to slow Earth getting fucked and instead a few very rich people are going to be stuck out in a space station as the alternative :facepalm:

There was a sci-Fi movie with that premise that came out about a decade ago called ‘Elisium’ The baddy is played by Tilda Swinton but she isn’t anywhere near as comically villainous as Musk.
 
I can quite see Trump turning over government 'streamlining' to Musk for mass sackings along the lines he's done at Twitter.
100% accurate. Gut everything , make all civil members of the administrtion sign up to his new regime of "hardcore" govt. , and then replace everyone who doesn't opt in with MAGA cultists who will enact a feudal, hyper-capitalist state.

The unions / sacked will sue and it'l cost a lot of money. Unemployment will go up horrendously, depressing the economy and reducing retail sales.

It'll singlehandedly trigger a second great depression that'll make 2008 look like a piggy bank. And who will benefit? the crypto bros.

its essentially a crypto bro takeover of the state.

And Putin will be laughing from the sidelines as the US finds itself essentially in undeclared civil war against itself. Putin will have refought the cold war and won, all without a single troop movement.

I'm kinda extremely pessimistic about a Trump win. It'll bring about techno-feudalism as far as i can work out
 
Because I am mostly an idiot, I dipped into his rogan interview released today. The usual right wing whinge points, the usual you can’t say anything these days, whilst saying it on the most downloaded podcast in human history.
 
Now Musk has delivered the victory, will he be dumped? Is Musk so rich and powerful he will still be useful, or is he too rich and powerful to ignore now he wants his payback?
 
Whilst musk is useful to them (e.g. dismantling/fucking-up swathes of government departments like the clusterfuck he did at Twitter) then trump & co will let him carry on torching stuff.

It'll help take attention away from the (even worse) shit they will be doing.

But then he will be toast.

However, I can see musk setting his sights on reducing (annihilating?) any environmental protection/FAA oversight/Health & Safety legislation that he perceives currently hinders SpaceX & Tesla. I can also see NASA's budget being slashed and diverted to SpaceX/grok/tesla/musk.

It'll be a shit show, whatever happens.

:(
 
i understand these sorts of things are complicated and family breakdowns are not that simple, but it makes me think
 
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