I bet if you audited the company cards and other discretionary perk-spending of the top brass (who are in Elon's orbit) at Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, you'll find tons and tons of "inefficiency and waste" if not outright strip clubs and hookers type stuff.
Yea, such an odd coincidence! I wonder how many parts of the government they'll declare as "inefficient" and "wasteful" where there's a corporate donor just licking their chops, waiting to swoop in and profit from the same work. That'll be such a goofy coincidence, too.
It sure will be, it's not like there's a streamlined way to directly and easily bribe the president with cryptocurrency or even just buying his a stock on an exchange, so I don't see any conflicts of interest at all.
It all seems above board and not depressing at all.
I know that's what people say, but this entire DOGE experiment has proven to me that Elon is fundamentally extremely lazy.
On the one hand, you might say "he's good at eliminating waste", but you can also say "he spends about five minutes looking at a problem and decides that problem is stupid and declares it wasteful".
You might be saying "tombert! He's the CEO of 5 companies! How is that lazy?!" but that actually proves my point. There is absolutely no fucking way he's doing five full time jobs, that doesn't even make sense, so clearly the jobs cannot be that hard.
Also, Elon lies about everything. If he says a statement, there's about a ten percent chance that it's actually true. He lied and said that we could do full self driving "today" in 2018, he lied about the moon trips going to be ready in 2022, he has lied over and over again about government spending (like saying we're spending 8 million dollars on condoms in Gaza), he lied about having autonomous robots in factories, he lied about having "baby AGI" in 2023.
I could keep going but I don't need to. A lot of his success is theoretical, and based on him making shit up.
ETA:
How could I forget...He cheats at Diablo!
You might think that's kind of a non-issue, and I would normally agree, but I think it exemplifies my point: He lied about something that fundamentally did not matter. There was no money on the line, it didn't matter if he was actually a top 20 player in the world, it's not like people would think he's better or worse at running a company based on his Diablo performance.
If he's willing to lie when there's zero stakes, why should we assume he's telling the truth when it actually matters?
It just cheapens all of his other accomplishments; he went on Joe Rogan and bragged about being one of the top 20 Diablo players in the world, despite the fact that he was just paying someone to play it for him.
If he’s going to brag about something completely inconsequential and false, why should I take his word that he’s somehow really instrumental in any of the success of Tesla or SpaceX?
