Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months agoJust because his lie was technically a slightly different one makes no matter, it was still a lie and it was still stupid that all those government regulators and legislators fell for it.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s only a lie if you think his goal was to sell more cars.
Maybe it was or wasn’t.
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And you think Elon Musk, the man who owns a car making company, wasn’t trying to sell more cars?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well, one implies malice, and the other pushing for a better more futuristic future.
And he has a history of pushing for a ln idealistic futuristic future, with pushing spacex to figure out how to land rockets or how to make a profitable EV, so ya, I’m willing to say there’s a likely chance he was honest in thinking it was a bad idea and California, the home of silicon valley and advanced technology could maybe come up with something better.
But we’ll never really know.
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I want some of what you are having, because you have a warped perception of reality.
Tom Nicholas has really good essay on this topic. Musk is not a futurism proponent. He is an apocalyptic visionaire. His view is not preparing a better future for all humans, instead about using tech for rich people surviving the end of the world whilst retaining their privileges. His futurism is fake.