The Myth Of Elon Musk

It's ludicrous how many people are convinced he's some kind of real-life Tony Stark and is going to lead us into a Star Trek future when the reality is most likely Blade Runner.

Musk is like someone who got an executive producer credit on a film for investing a bit of money in it, but then talks about it as though he wrote, directed, and edited the entire thing.

People born with a silverspoon in their mouth are so obsessed with pretending they are selfmade even though they had so much benefit from rich parents. Not just money but also contacts, friendships with other silverspoons and so on.

Musk and Bezos, being 2 of the wealthiest people, are indicative of the state of our society. Bezos' wealth exposes our predisposition with consumption and Musk's wealth shows our inability to think critically.

There is a great book from the 1990s called "The Honda Myth". It's a good book about how Honda Motor made its founder Soichiro Honda, to be some genius, that created a scrappy, clever startup. Only, none of it was true. I read that book many years ago, and the rise of Tesla and Musk very much reminds me of this thing at Honda, except on a much bigger scale. I find it strange that so many people need a hero to believe in, an illusion. Be your own hero.

Gotta love that quote: 'It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.' People are in such need for hero worship, that they blindly follow people like Musk when I wish they would just work on themselves.

The fact that he made those comments about the "workers" in his factory in China in a public forum really says it all.

"I sleep on the floor so I can experience worse than what my workers' situation is" Yeah, not really the same when your bank account is exploding. Having peace of mind is priceless. It's like the 'activists' who sleep outside for a week to 'experience' homelessness and think they're heroes for it.

Elon Musk is the Kim Kardashian for men

Apparently he’s a huge Deus Ex fan. The irony is he probably thinks of himself as JC Denton, when in reality he’s Bob Page.

If Twitter is an important part of your life, I don't know how to help you. No matter who owns it.

It really hits home when you start to think about all the poor people in 3rd world countries, both children and adults that massive companies regularly exploit for their profits. So much of consumer culture relies on never questioning where anything comes from or how it was made. I wish these companies could at least stop pretending that they're in it to help people. The idea of them or their frontmen being 'relatable' is unsettling.

I am gonna disagree with the "Elon isn't evil" comment. Evil isn't just moustache twirling. Its all the awful shit he condones/benefits from when it comes to terrible wages, harassing detractors, horrifying working conditions, and the perpetuation of an economic system that is actively killing the planet. If you pull yourself back and try to ignore all those feelings of "normalcy" that has been deeply set in societies across the world, you come to realize how truly fucked we all are because around 10,000 people in the last 200 years decided unchecked greed was the best choice. Now we are fully experiencing the consequences of these people's actions and it will likely be too late for any of them to suffer with us.

This channel has made it obvious we should always be very suspicious of anyone with power or influence. Especially if they state they are saviours of some sort.

I worked with a guy that was just the most naturally gifted narcissist sociopath I've ever met. Amongst his many talents for manipulation was a constant habit of putting himself into carefully chosen "difficult situations" and then going on and on about how hard he struggled through it for years and years afterward. At first it was like "Wow, that's tough. Good job." After a couple years it seemed suspicious, and after several it was just fucking nauseating watching him shop for the right situation to get into the middle of and then complain endlessly about how tough he had it, while people that hadn't already had the benefit of listening to YEARS of this bullshit were like "Oh wow you poor guy, you're so GREAT." I see the exact same patterns in Musk. I think his main motivator in life is being seen as great, and I think no amount of being that person will ever be enough, just like that guy I worked with. Up and up that ladder and still crushing people underfoot and using what they worked for to make himself look AMAZING, and it's never ever enough. Think about this: When he's busy touting his latest innovation, are you ever in doubt that it's HIS innovation? Does he ever go out of his way to make it plain that HIS innovations are the result of hundreds, thousands of people working tirelessly to make these things a reality? Or do you always feel like it's his personal work because that's the image he's putting out there? This is a very Thomas Edison approach to success, NOT a Nikola Tesla approach.

I overheard a conversation on a street corner between two rather neat and tidy young men, both looked very aspirational. One was speaking in awed tones about Neuralink, and how amazing its going to be in twenty year's time. I found myself recalling the words of the neurologist Frank Vertosick Jr, who was once told by a mentor of his, "Once the air hits your brain it's never the same." Looking further into this statement, Vertosick Jr elaborates: “to have the audacity to cut into a person’s brain without the slightest clue of his life, his occupation . . . I find that most simply appalling.” I also found myself thinking back to videos of neural implants from the 1960s. There doesn't seem to have been a lot of progress in this frontier of corporate colonisation: the installation of planned technological obsolescence into the human interiors. I felt rather sorry for these naively optimistic young men.

His dad also bought him a 10 bedroom house in Canada for him at University when musk claims he got nothing

It's like "lol he smoked weed publicly once so he must be on the level!!!!" I'm convinced that's one of the main reasons why people like him, it's nothing to do with his apparent inventions and success, it's all to do with how he presents himself as just some guy, he doesn't wear corporate suits, he's flamboyant and different (in appearance) from the stereotype of a heartless billionaire so people think that makes him down to earth.

also, musk is not a scientist, he has a degree in buiseness and a TEACHING degree in physics, which helps to understand this stuff, but is NOT a scientific or a "real" physics/engineering degree (not saying those degrees are worthless, but they are for teaching, not for scientific research and expanding the field). what he is really good in is, hirering good scientists and taking credit for their work and firing them if something gives bad press

"pretoria" sound exactly like "land of the praetor". I am South African, I live in a dystopian fascist nightmare. My father was an architect, the kind of guy musk's dad would hire. My dad was murdered for trying to build a hospital in a poor area for a reasonable price.