21 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

    1. No. Nobody really did.

      WIRED forgot to mention Elon fled to Canada to avoid military service in a then still free South Africa. The brave men who died fighting the ANC did more for human civilization than Elon ever will.

    2. The article basically says Musk uses and ruins peoples lives and then aggrandizes him to say that’s he’s a visionary or saint.

      Personally i wouldn’t care if some jilted former employee cracks him in the head with a lead pipe.

  3. Even those hate fired by him have this religious attachment to Tesla, because it is going to change/save the world.
    Idiots. All that was missing from this story was the grape kool-aid.

    1. killing third world children to mine the minerals necessary is always a good thing for SJWs.

    1. After reading about half of that article and then giving up I would have to agree. He seems to exhibit the same characteristics as Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

  5. The guy basically has created a culture where every employee is afraid to even talk to him out of fear of being fired. They’re working at all hours trying to get their job done and the play boy is:

    one evening in late October of that year, as things were still going badly inside the Gigafactory, Musk climbed onto the facility’s roof and posted a video on Instagram of himself and a few others roasting marshmallows, drinking whiskey, and singing a Johnny Cash song. “That did not go over well,” said a former high-­ranking engineering executive. “All these people are working super hard, and he’s drinking and having a campfire.” Soon afterward, the company revealed that it had lost $671 million in the previous quarter and had built only 222 Model 3

    The absolute nightmare company to work for. Anyone who works there is nuts to do it. I hope it crashes and burns hard and he ends up penniless.

  7. There’s nothing that screams ‘cult’ more than a person like this and his blind adherence to a fictional narrative:
    “Larkin, who helped oversee factory software until he was fired in April, still feels a strong emotional and financial attachment to Tesla. He’d worked there for three years and was proud to be part of something that could reduce carbon in the atmosphere and “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” as the company’s mission statement puts it. “Tesla is the only company positioned to make this world a better place, to really improve the world right now,” Larkin told me. “And Tesla is Elon. How can you be bitter about humanity’s best hope?”

  9. Musk is a real weirdo. He sounds bi-Polar, with schizophrenia. I have lived with it for 17years … the symptoms are easily recognizable. He needs to stay ON his meds, and OFF the plastic surgery.

  10. Two comments.
    First, Musk reminds me a lot of the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, who laid the foundation for it to be the worst period in Chinese history. (Until now.) He executed almost all the people who helped him to power, some of whom were lifelong friends. It was said high officials tearfully bid the family goodbye each morning before going to court, not knowing if they would survive the day. Musk isn’t any different. The only difference is that he can’t execute the employees he arbitrarily fired. He probably would if he could.
    Second, the whole cult is based on two false assumptions. First, that carbon dioxide causes irreversible global warming. (And the corollary that slight global warming itself is a bad thing.) And second, that using up (much rarer) rare earth elements to make batteries for the electric cars is more “sustainable” than using (much more plentiful) oil. In fact, quite the contrary. Imagine a billion batteries for a billion electric cars. Has anyone thought about how much more rare earth element deposits we need to exploit? Or what is the “peak rare earth” ? Now that is a real question, because they are really exhaustible, unlike oil.

  11. OldBruin.
    Good point on batteries. IMHO batteries are like razor blades. Ok the lifespan is a little longer, but you will always need new batteries. And guess who has most of the rare-earth elements?

    Guess who has the lowest environmental standards?

    And in 10 years we are going to have a big problem with battery clean up/recycling. But Climate Barbie says its nothing a few dollars won’t fix. So Turdeau will bring in a battery tax.

  12. It’s the 40,000 kids he has mining cobalt that I feel sorry for. Musk says the next generation of batteries will be cobalt free, but in the meantime why would anyone drive a symbol of child slavery?

  13. He has probably out-parasited Bombardier…and that’s some achievement.

    It’s the laurel our press barons are striving for.

  14. Just another Arrogant (_i_)hole….I got through about a third and quite when the Rah Rah Bs statred. Pah, it simply goes to show how common sense (critical thinking), has for all intents and puposes dissapeared from Humanity. (CO2 induced Climate Change)

    Most of said CO2 Carbon this/that adherents about as smart as Whistlers mayor…. or Climate Barbie.

    Scientists have stated repeatdly that the “BIG ONE” is overdue….I wonder if I will see that in my lifetime….?? Couldn’t happen to a more deserving segment of “humanity”

  15. TBF he has some real achievements under his belt. Then he lost his mind. The craziest part is that things would probably be going okay if not for his insane ALIEN DREADNOUGHT…”idea”. That killed Tesla’s ability to deliver.

  16. It was a long article but I never made it to the finish. My computer froze up and I gave up. But
    I read enough to realize what a nut-job asshole he is. Before I just thought he was a nut-job.

  17. Musk, the narcissistic jerk will likely be put out of business not from lack of cult followers, cult shareholders, and compliant politicians but from competition from real automakers who can cross-subsidize their e-vehicles with profitable ICE vehicle sales. In two years, VW will out-compete them for reasonably priced electric vehicles.

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