I agree with this take. It also has the unique property of causing a lot of drama and sound-bites in the media on both sides of the left/right spectrum. One side applauds it for getting things done finally, while the other bemoans the end of democracy due to "collusion" between the president and non-elected private-sector rich billionaires that supposedly seek to make a profit out of all this.
Whereas it seems obvious to me that zero of those individuals would be billionaires given their mere existence is proof that governance is malfunctioning. Moreover it's quite literally impossible to get valuable input from an individual who's day-to-day existence is so thoroughly divorced from reality that they couldn't tell you what a stick of butter costs.
Elon is a con man who has somehow fallen upwards through luck of birth and government subsidies.
He didn't start any of "his" companies, I'm convinced has little to no real engineering input into them, and only remains relevant through going viral for his brain dead takes on social media, which is incidentally one of the ridiculous "investments" that he is now running into the ground.
Have you seen his vacuum train idea? I think that says it all about his engineering expertise. Full self driving using only cameras is another one. Colonizing Mars? The surface temperature of Mars is from −110°C to 35°C, with a mean of -60°C. A rocket would take 9 months to get there.
A Snake Oil salesman of the highest degree. Quite similar to another person I won't mention.
1. Neither of us have any idea what Elon Musk's day to day activities look like.
2. If Tesla had been organized for maximum productivity they would have skipped the decade-ish rolling clusterfuck of engineering faceplants, manufacturing bottlenecks, bullshit software issues, and gross body fitment problems by nothing more complex than actually taking a while to learn how cars are made by companies with multi-generational pools of experience to draw on. It's not like cars had just been invented and major R&D was required to debug the process.
The notion that Marc Andreessen has nothing of substance to do
and spends sufficient time monitoring Elon Musk's daily activities to provide objective reporting on the subject strains credulity but believe what you want. Care to address the glaring proof that maximized productivity isn't an obvious outcome of whatever the fuck it is that Elon Musk spends his time on or nah?
