Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/07/elon-musk-now-worlds-richest-person.html
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Nothing wrong with capitalism or Wall Street. No siree.
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Tesla on it own seems like a profitable company, it’s giant evaluation has more to do with the traditional car companies pretending that the shift from ICE to electric didn’t already happen.
Rosebud.
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Electric cars will not save the world, they are at best an irrelevance, at worst an ecocidal catastrophe carried out on the people whose minerals they depend on. And just a quick FYI: extractive imperialism does not benefit the country that it happens in. Just ask the DR Congo.
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I thought there was a blanket “No Muskrat” policy in the BBS boards?
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What about electronic cars? Can they save the world?
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Putin is worth a reputed $200B, so Musk is still #2 on paper. The simple fact of his wealth being from a preposterous Wall St. valuation of Tesla is just sad.
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Tell me which major car company is missing from this list?
I live in Norway. 50% of new car purchases last year were electric here and when I see them on the streets they are by no means all Teslas. BMW and Jaguar are probably the most common, actually.
I keep asking myself: is our economy ran by idiots? The captains of industry have their hand on the tiller, but are stone drunk?
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We need to go back to the era of cars that were vacuum and relay controlled. I have two semesters of pneumatics and hydraulics education that I could cash in on if only the demand were there.
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clarify - electronic car? a car made of … nanobots? stop with the damn cars and make a transporter.
food & matter replicator - this is likely a better bet to ‘save the world’
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