• Nougat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Rushed to electric cars.

      History has shown that somebody needed to do that: put a real electric car with modern features into big production, complete with a charging infrastructure, damn the panel gaps and software bugs. Did Musk push that into existence? Sure. But that doesn’t mean it was a “good decision” at the time. It was a huge gamble, and that one paid off, not just for Musk and Tesla, but for the world.

      That’s what Musk does. He gambles on longshots. And he gambles with other people’s interests and well-being.

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    1 year ago

    He’s rushing the tech on all of these things on hopes of getting off this rock before the shit-pile him and his cronies left the planet in is unsustainable. He and other billionaires want to get into space tomorrow to escape the results of their greed today. We’re still decades from being able to survive in space for long periods of time.