The Elon Musk Email
So very many idiots have written so very many idiotic things this morning only in response to Elon Musk bidding to take over Twitter that I’ve already written about it over at Reason. (Oh yeah, Welch here.)
But more importantly, as teased on the previous Patreon pod, we have a bang-on email from listener Scott G. that’s now ready from prime time. Without further ado:
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The Year Is 2000. Imagine Al Gore telling you about a liberal businessman he just met:
He’s an immigrant to America.
He’s the biggest advocate for getting America and the world off fossil fuels.
He’s donated $100 Million to develop technology to capture carbon from the atmosphere.
He’s not “neuro typical”. But has overcome his “disability” and has become very successful.
In 2021 he will pay the largest amount of yearly taxes in American history.
He’s a leader in the solar power industry.
He’s a leader in the battery technology industry.
He's a leader in the software industry.
He’s a leader in the Artificial Intelligence industry. But he’s one of the biggest critics of AI safety.
He started a company to make brain-computer Interfaces to help people with head and spine trauma to walk and communicate again. Or even control a robot prosthetics with their mind.
He started a tunneling company to cheaply fix transportation bottlenecks and reduce the social crime of using eminent domain against poor people and their neighborhoods.
He started to design humanoid robots to help in factories, doing dangerous or overly repetitive tasks.
He runs an electric car company that has become the most successful and most valuable car company in the history of the world.
His cars are the safest ever tested at the American insurance institute.
His cars can drive themselves and are statistically safer drivers on highways than just humans.
He started a satellite internet company that offers incredibly high speed internet access to any person, anywhere on earth- including countries that are run by oppressive authoritarians and dictators.
He taught himself rocket science and started a space transportation and rocket company that reinvented access to space and other planets. The US Congress ended the Space shuttle program and asked private industry to takeover delivering our American astronauts to orbit and beyond - he answered the call 1st. His services are 1/10th the cost what NASA was paying previously.
He was concerned that current K-12 schooling weren’t preparing his children for the 21st century. So he started a private school for his employees children to focus on building entrepreneurs, inventors, software developers, and STEM leaders.
He believes free speech is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy.
He was worried about censorship by a social media company so he spent $3B of his own money to become the largest investor.
He doesn’t like unions, but he has some of the most loyal and happy employees of any tech company.
He loves the movie Space Balls.
Occasionally, he publicly SAYS “weird or stupid stuff” but ……let’s not forget he has a “mental disability”.
And oh yeah, he’s fucking smarter than 99.99% of us.
I’d say he’s a liberal dreamboat!