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  • #242
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,908 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122915695#Comment_122915695

    Em… No. Credit and debit cards have existed for decades. Space flight has existed for over half a century and various carmakers are making EVs, cheaper and better than Tesla I might add.

    The guy's just a rich fascist who made a few smart financial choices. That's it.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #243
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,872 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    There’s no denying the man has the media / information literacy and emotional intelligence of a 14-year-old 4Chan troll, and the politics to match.

    Also, concentrating that much wealth and power in the hands of one man is never a ‘good thing’. I’d question how much he actually tipped the scales of the election, but using a blank cheque and ownership of a major social media platform to even try to influence a democratic election outcome isn’t a positive achievement - it’s oligarchy. In a just and better world, nobody would ever come remotely close to amassing that level of personal wealth.



  • #244
    Grumpypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,329 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    In the early 2000's Paypal handled 20-25% of all online payments - That's big and changed how people shopped online.

    Telsa has 56% market share of the US EV market. - That's Big and changed how people bought EVs (and how every other company started making them).

    Space X has 65% of the market share. Again, it's very big and changed how we get things into space and now with re-usable boosters that's only going to grow.

    You can not like him, but you can't deny that he hasn't had a positive impact. I don't particularly like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates but to write off their impact on the world as just the marketing/money men would be daft.



  • #245
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,793 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916261#Comment_122916261

    But Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were actual engineers that did engineering and both didn't have daddies with emerald mines.

    At PayPal Elon was brought on because he was a useful idiot with money. It wasn't his idea. It he didn't build it. Tesla again needed money and he was their useful idiot while the engineers designed and built the cars.

    SpaceX was a disaster until it got propped up by US taxpayer money and got expertise from NASA.

    Name one thing at those companies that he contributed to in a creative role. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at least had talent and created stuff before they got into leadership positions.



  • #246
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,872 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Also, while EVs are ‘better’ than gas guzzling alternatives, they’re solving the wrong problem. The actual solution is clean, accessible public transport. Electric cars and pick-up trucks - especially in Tesla’s world - continue to be small, personal vehicles, which demand an immense amount of resources to build and run relative to the what can be achieved via mass transport alternatives.

    Musk has actively worked to sabotage rail projects, and Hyperloop - even if it worked - was extremely inefficient compared to traditional public transport. So in many respects he has done substantial harm when it comes to long-term environmental sustainability, even relative to the modest benefits of electric vs fossil fuels. That’s not even getting into the fact he’s about to join an administration that will do untold harm to the environment. Or, for that matter and to bring it back on topic, his support for resource-intensive AI, which is an environmental disaster.



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  • #247
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,195 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    He also repeatedly stole posts from Hard Drive and posted them on his own account without credit. That alone should prove he's not deserving of any praise.



  • #248
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,908 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916261#Comment_122916261

    No, it didn't. Amazon changed how people shop online. Ebay was a fad and nothing more.

    Tesla did not invent the electric car. Those have been in development for some time.

    SpaceX subsists on government subsidies. I'm not seeing anything but corruption here. Musk did not of the engineering so I don't see what I am supposed to be impressed by here.

    He took a monopoly in the form of Twitter and ran it into the ground. Nobody knew what BlueSky was until a few months ago.

    He's a cancer of a human being. He's contributed nothing positive to the world and even his own children hate him. Gates and Jobs revolutionised their fields with skill, savvy and good instincts. Musk had a daddy with an emerald mine. Not remotely the same thing.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #249
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,793 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    He's also most likely one of Epstein's nonce pals.



  • #250
    Grumpypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,329 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916344#Comment_122916344

    eBay is a 25+ year fad 😂.

    I didn't say Tesla invented EVs. I said he made EVs mainstream by making mass production of affordable electric cars a reality. If loads of others are doing it why didn't they drive the market?

    Bill Gates mammy got him the IBM contract that got him going. I'm still not going to say he wasn't influential for the world.



  • #251
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,908 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916436#Comment_122916436

    Who is using ebay, exactly? It's VHS in the world of streaming.

    You can say he mainstreamed EVs all you want but it's patently false. Major carmakers saw the way the wind was blowing some time ago and started developing EVs as they knew it was that or oblivion.

    Gates created Windows. Musk created nothing but safe spaces for fascists and racists. That's quite a difference.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #252
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,793 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916436#Comment_122916436

    True about Bill Gates. But he also was involved in the engineering behind MS-DOS and it's variants and Windows up to and including windows 95.

    Musk is the idiot you bring on board and tolerate and pander to because he has money. That's his only contribution to any of these projects.



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