The foundation and building of large corporate fortunes is not normally a quick process. There are always exceptions of course, but generally things take time. The conventional wisdom, which has proven true time and again, is that “it takes the first generation to make it, and the second generation to make it really big.”
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The process has been the same in all cases, and it certainly applies today to the current “Richest Man in the World”, Elon Musk.
All you have to do is think. Using Elon Musk as an example, the man appeared to come from literally nowhere and yet suddenly “owns” the world’s largest auto manufacturer. Musk at the same time began an aggressive program of launching tens of thousands of communications satellites, and then SpaceX, “Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company”, the maker of the Starship, planning International Space Station missions, no less. Then we have Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion.
In the last 100 years, anyone attempting to create a new auto company and brand has met with disaster, but Musk apparently experienced not a hiccup with the Tesla that is suddenly a world favorite. This would have required perhaps ten years of planning and design, the planning of factories and production, the creation of supply lines, the testing and certification, and so much more, but with Tesla this apparently all occurred overnight in a vacuum. Are we to believe Elon Musk designed the Tesla? There is no evidence Musk has the ability to design even a dipstick, much less an entire car, so how did all this occur and what was the source of the background billions required to bring this project to fruition? Musk played no part in the creation of the Tesla. He just somehow showed up at the end, “owning” the company.
Similarly, the aggressive program of communication satellites that “Elon Musk” has launched; this as well would require many years of planning and design, to say nothing of arranging the launch facilities and obtaining the necessary thousands of paying customers. This again would require years and billions of dollars in financing but, like Bezos’ space flight program, this one suddenly appeared in full bloom, operating, launched, and ready to go. Who did the planning for this? It certainly wasn’t Musk, so who was behind it? And the money for all this came from where? “Musk’s” Tesla has never made a profit, so where would he obtain the billions for a pie-in-the-sky system of tens of thousands of communications satellites? Nothing like this can happen without a decade or more of intensive planning and an enormous investment, and obviously none of that came from Musk.
When you write that he owns "the world's largest auto manufacturer," you detract from anything else you say.
Maybe the editor forgot to put in ‘electric’? I would not discount the article because of that.
Thanks - I didn't, it was implied.
It is a quote from the linked article that goes into much more detail.
Not sure what you mean? detract?
It means that once you say ---or write--- something that is clearly and objectively wrong, people tend to tune out and ignore the rest.
I agree that Elon was set up by the gov't, but if the first example is flat-out BS, it's simply not the best argument to use to convince other people. That's all.
Original article could have included "Electric" in the statement,
e.g. "the world’s largest electric auto manufacturer."
But, that is implied and it really not the point of the article or this post.
Largest electric vehicle companies by Market Cap
Tesla TSLA $565.79 B
Tesla is the largest Electric Vehicle seller, with over 900 thousand sold in 2021.
The Tesla Model 3 is the top-selling electric vehicle.
Toyota comes in as the second largest EV company, with nearly 600 thousand units sold in 2021.
What a horrible thought:
1500 thousand [1,500,000] vehicles sold in 2021, by tesla and toyo, full of toxic batteries will convert to more than 11,500,000 lbs of battery waste in our land fills in 2028.
Hey maybe we should give the guy a break? He needs all that money to pay child support for his ten kids to........ how many women??? I’m sure he spends a lot of time with them between that and working 100 hrs per week.😀
Spending 10 or more years on automation, new robots for factories, making the process of building cars as important as building the cars. Suddenly he is an "Overnight success"
His 10 years of work represent 20 to 30 years from someone else. Since he works 100ish hours per week. Is this how we define "Suddenly"?
Elon was the primary engineer for spacex also. Now can you say he can't design a dipstick?
All CEO's want their workers to put in the same hours they do. Elon at 100 hours per week, yet his potential reward is much, much greater than the next employee. But you still have to work that hard for him.
Same, for Netflix, Amazon. Huge wages but they burn you out. Amazon only expect 2 years of work and aligns their stock vesting to get most of it back from their burned out staff.
You are just repeating the MSM narratives that are put out in muff's favor by over 20 publicity companies.
You do not know the man.
He was the self appointed chief engineer after he fired a real chief engineer with 20 years at Boeing working the Delta launch vehicles [not me], because he was not pushing for designs that were 'cool'.
muff's lingo for engineering input were statements like,
"That's too thin"
"Ask boat builders to build the rocket, they are less expensive" [no takers from the industry]
"make the service tower look cool, like a giant sail boat mast"
I could go on, but, people need to understand that he is the front man propped up by propogandists to fulfill an agenda that is not his.
Be careful what you worship.
Gosh if only Ford or GM or Fiat or VW would have thought of that.
I have worked in the auto industry. Went to GM HQ. They do not think like that. They can barely think. They build their HQ to be a mall, actually forced to. Incase it failed.
The auto industry is 15 years behind standard tech. Poor middle managers.
As for Boeing. Fly on a 737Max and find out.
The entire system is BS. Stock market, MSM, auto, tech, Biden, Medical, local courts, federal courts, FED Reserve, CDC, FDA, Celebrities shilling vaccines, Bill Gates in Health care and farming, ... everything has become corrupt and unmanageable.
Don't trust any of it/them (they:their).
Why does everyone forget the company he started and sold for upwards of 300 million?
That's certainly no drop in the bucket, and he couldn't have "come out of nowhere" after that...
Paypal?
That was a stormy ride with many contentious counters to the narrative.
Bowster, you should go after Elon for this.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/20612145/elon-musks-neuralink-tests-left-monkeys-dead/
Neuralink is some of the scariest stuff of all time. Elon will take over the world with that. Cars, Neuralinks, SpaceX, Starlink, Yuge DOD contracts. DOD is behind Covid-19 so there is that also. It seems like he will take control in a few more years.
At least he has the potential to rule the wold, and those values align with the WEF, NWO stuff. That is the scary part.
creepy stuff
https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/elon-musks-brain-chip-firm-neuralink-kept-suffering-animals-alive-for-no-reason-report-articleshow.html
He further revealed, per Daily Mail, that the neurosurgeons used a substance called BioGlue as a sealant for the surgical holes in the skull of the monkeys which caused swelling and hemorrhage. Not only was BioGlue not authorised for usage in brain surgery by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but it was being used in amounts of 15-20 ml instead of the instructional 3-5 ml. What's more, is that the company had to sacrifice a monkey ahead of schedule after a botched experiment, the former employee told Daily Mail.
No, zip2