I know his girl is a wackado, but damnit I badly want Musk to be more Tesla and NOT Gates!
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Reasons I never really trusted Musk:
1: Read about his family history (political affiliations in other countries; etc..)
2: How did PayPal really disrupt the financial system? Its like big pharma. They don't just let you shake up the financial game for no reason.
3: Brain Chip / Transhumanism advocacy
4: Almost all his money is linked to government money. Telsa could not have succeeded originally without the MASSIVE tax incentives Obama had in place and also SpaceX is literally just government contracts. Sure he shook up the game but space is only profitable via the government currently
You don't make it in the top 10 wealthiest without someone owning you or owing favors.
He's paid all his government loans back related to SpaceX. And while SpaceX has government contracts, not as many as you would think. The lobbyists are still favoring dinosaurs like Boeing etc.
It's easy to put him one of 2 categories "them" or "us". But I think he's his own entity, not being run by anyone. Also notice how Don Jr has called for Elon to make his own media/telecommunications to compete with Twitter/facebook/etc.
I don't agree with him on everything, not a fan of the transhumanism stuff, but at the same time he's warned about how dangerous AI could be.
Nobody is squeaky clean, but I don't think Elon is a bad guy. He's just incredibly focused on what he wants to achieve.
Well I also won't rule out the idea that he may have been controlled but not fully on the dark side and so now trump and them are working with him in the shadows because he did sit on one of trumps advisory boards I believe.
I just don't believe any of these tech billionaires rags to riches stories. None of them are "their own man". Not the new rich. Some of the Trump types back in the day but if you broke into the mega rich you are connected.
He mocked Cyrus A Parsa when Parsa asked him for his assistance to get the message out about the dangers of AI coming from China