Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to those men of 150 years ago like Carnegie and Rockefeller and Ford who had a vision and forced it into a reality that changed the world. Where did they all go, did the growing government regulatory bureaucracy stifle them all in the womb? I had assumed so but here stands Elon, like him or loath him, as proof that such men can still exist.
Add The Boring Company and NeuraLink to that list.................
“ So Elon founded PayPal, SpaceX (including the game changing Starlink), OpenAI, Tesla, and (this one I didn’t even know) xAI. All pretty different and all multi-billion dollar operations. Maybe a few more, the guy has the midas touch.”
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You forgot the Boring Company, his tunneling enterprise.
If you sit and think about it very briefly, you will understand that these seemingly diverse enterprises are all closely related to and supportive of musk’s ultimate goal, which is to help humanity get off this ball of dust. Obviously SpaceX physically does that. Starlink allows communications, not just here on earth, but the same thing on Mars or around any other bases that we may create on the moon or in the asteroid belt. Tesla and all of the solar power related to it are obviously necessary if we are going to have transportation on the surface of Mars or the moon. Internal combustion engines simply won’t work there. As for the tunneling operation, neither the moon, nor Mars has an atmosphere to speak of, nor magnetic fields, so in order to live their long-term, we will have to live underground. Also, the tunneling operation will obviously make sub surface transportation much easier to accomplish. As for buying Twitter, I think that is something that was not really planned as an integral part of this larger goal, but on the other hand, if we don’t have a free society, we’re never going to get off of the planet. It is also an opportunity to make money, not in the short run, but overtime, and I am sure that he will do exactly that. That will help to finance the other operations, and ensure that freedom spreads far and wide across human civilization.
I think that assuming we actually get off the planet in a reasonably sustainable way, Musk will be looked up upon as one of humanity’s greatest visionaries.