Make America Tesla Again

On my cell phone it was open and free. forwarded it to my e-mail. Now there's a pay wall.

So here it is from memory. Elon Musk's Tesla company is losing bucks, and Dear Leader Brandon's Inflation Reduction Act was (forcing; article said "encouraging") legacy car manufacturers to make their own EVs, causing Tesla, already in trouble (because EVs suck) to lose money to these new competitors (who are also losing money). So Musk is backing Trump solely in order to eliminate his competitors in the EV line.

Nothing to do with his lost tranny son, the state of the country, or anything else. He's just a greedy businessman trying to keep his line of obsolete EVs on the market, even as he moves on to hydrogen fuel-powered vehicles, self-driving vehicles, flying vehicles, and AI robots.

The cases you cite are very little more than building on earlier technology.

There was the Baker Electric from the 1st decade of the 20th century. Was it slow with limited range? Yes, of course.

NASA recovered the solid rocket boosters from the Shuttle for reuse. Did they save money doing that? Not likely.

Did Musk "invent" PayPal (which isn't and never was a bank)? Nope. His X.com was a bank only in the sense that it was linked to an actual bank, First Western National Bank. X.com merged with Confinity, already in existence as a payment platform.

This was sort of like Tesla, already in its infancy, when Musk wormed his way into it with a bucket of cash in his hand which bought him a position as CEO.

The concept of "flying cars" was decades old, but never matured for reasons of practicality. Tesla isn't the only company seeking to build "self-driving" cars, but has the public image of being a leader because of it's false advertising of its "autopilot" as an autonomous platform. Pioneering efforts in this field go back decades before Tesla came into being.

Any groundbreaking technology coming out of Musk's association with any of these entities was in large part the result of years of innovation and hard work by the respective engineering and development staffs, and much less the influence of Musk in his role a modern carnival barker.

Just watch some of his appearances in Tesla public events, such as the Cybertruck introduction, for evidence.

Enh. By that logic, Trump Towers was a consolidation of existing buildings on a midtown parcel. He didn’t actually build it, just took those buildings and synthesized them into something truly beautiful and sublime.

Of course Musk continued the work of previous engineers. The last totally original breakthrough technological advance was the microchip. But the world’s been totally changed by a bunch of visionaries who built on and improved the microchip into AI and all that came before it, and all that’ll come after it.

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