Unfortunately, that's all you need to become a billionaire in this country (besides a massive inheritance).
Every subsidy and tax credit Tesla ever got was earned through fraud and deception.
When Teslas crash on self-driving mode, they turn off self-driving mode nanoseconds before the crash so the driver can be blamed.
Elon literally purchased the title of "Founder" from the actual founder of Tesla.
He got sued into buying Twitter after trying to back out, and now acts like it was always his master plan.
Emerald mines? What emerald mines.
Rocket explosion? It was supposed to do that, look at all my engineers clapping and cheering knowing they'll be fired if they don't.
Nobody wants to pay for a checkmark? Of course they do, look at all the check marks he's buying for them.
This man's entire career has been him screaming "I'm not owned, I'm not owned, you're owned." And it works. Because capitalism is the exact opposite of a meritocracy.
You could write Elon in a dystopian cyberpunk novel and critics would be like "nah, not believable too laughably evil".
"There's no way the government would trust this guy with the entire space program, ridiculous."
It it weren't so upsetting that'd be rad as hell plot twist. Great narrative hook tbh.
Usually one of them is picked to be the fall guy, ala Bernie Madoff I like to think that Epstein was the Madoff of the elite billionaire pedophile world.
And when the fall guy goes down the stupid public is like "oh okay, problem solved!" and the show goes on behind the scenes.
I would bet good money that he's having the corporation pay for those as advertising for a tax write off
Emerald mines? What emerald mines.
This, but unironically. His dad was selling paper promises.
Rocket explosion? It was supposed to do that, look at all my engineers clapping and cheering knowing they’ll be fired if they don’t.
Insane how quickly the :reddit-logo: crowd has just decided exploding rockets are good, Aktuly.
If Musk had tried even one of these things in China he'd have been arrested and given lethal injection by now
I took some coding classes when I was in college and I was pretty mediocre. I still take some confidence in the idea that there is a good chance I am probably a better engineer than Elon Musk.
At least the Steven King one was just a fuck you. King had been vocal about how he was never ever going to pay for Twitter and I am willing to bet money that Musk actually insisted on paying for it. He could of course just give out a free account without any money changing hands, since he owns Twitter, but I am certain that he is actually paying himself $8/month in the name of King's Twitter account just to spite him. Since King is also rich and clearly doesn't want this there are going to be lawyers and bankers involved and the total cost that Musk is paying for this little stunt is probably not really $8/month, but rather enough money to completely support an entire family for like a century.
Even better: He could get sued for this for implied endorsement.
:inshallah:
So basically it's back to square one, when public figures and celebrities had verified account but now it's more convoluted, incoherent and stupid. Wow Elon is true innovator.
