I prefer “Fuck you, you’re fired.”
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Goo goo g’joob!
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grumble grumble
Yes, I have a luxury car. It has 5k miles per year on it. It is also my daily driver.
The roadster, the S, and the X are expensive cars. And sales are expected to be be 30k each for the S and X till ~2018.
Then the E comes out at an estimated $40k, but will likely climb to $50k. So in 2020 Tesla will be shipping, optimistically 200k cars a year.
I want an S. Bad. Really bad. And it is a great step.
But me, telecommuting and driving less than five K a year is better than 3 electric cars.
Not everyone can do this, but the, “changing the world” rhetoric is grating.
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Ok, so there’s not a lot of corroboration there, what with Business Inside quoting a book that doesn’t have much to back it up in the excerpt. Nevertheless, I am prepared to believe the article, because “Dickhole Billionare Treats Employees Like Disposable Commodities” is a pretty believable headline.
Who gives a fuck? Taking care of your family is always more important than shipping on time, period. The only exceptions are people whose work actually saves lives; doctors, some therapists, etc.
[quote]The Internet has memory. Anything you say today can and will be used to make an outrage tomorrow.
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If you don’t want to be remembered as a guy who punches kittens, then you can worry about whether the internet will find out about your kitten-punching, or you can just, you know, not punch any kittens. The second option always seemed like the easier one to me.
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No.
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I think the context may well be that Musk honestly believes that what he’s doing is critical to saving our species. If you accept that premise, then obviously the emotional needs of an individual are nowhere near as important at the big picture.
The guy is literally saying that poverty and disease are nowhere near as important as what he’s working on. I’m just saying that it’s not uncommon for people who think that way to not understand why everybody else in the world doesn’t feel the same.
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Right. My method for tackling these internet outrage moments:
Take the date this allegedly happened. Imagine that this thing was the worst thing this person did between that date and today. Does that make this guy a bad person, or just an ordinary person who had a bad day in a period of years?
People seem to imagine these moments as if they are representative of an individual, but the actual process is that only what is ‘interesting’ is reported. Musk could send a birthday card to his employee’s children’s party a dozen times in that period and you’ll never see it in the news.
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“Do you really think what you are doing is as important as ending global poverty?” is kinda a dumb trick question designed to make people look bad. Assuming you aren’t a charity worker at this very moment, then yeah, implicitly, the answer is yes. Because otherwise why the heck are you doing the thing you are currently doing?
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I would tell mr. Musk he’s fired, and leave.
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He’s certainly on a mission; I doubt very much it’s from anyone as prosaic as God.
While I find the attitude evinced obnoxious, you get the same from businesspeople the world over doing much more everyday things. So I don’t think the ‘vision’ Musk has drives the behaviour; but it may go some way towards justifying it - not that it’s right, but it’s human to lose perspective under the pressure of such a massive project. Musk is trying to make changes that will make the world a better place. Compare that to Steve Jobs, whose glorious vision was that everyone would have his products in their pocket.
I don’t think they drive most of the change in the world. I think they are just the ones who demand the most credit.
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But that’s still just your family, relevant to you and maybe a few people around you. While understandable, it is still a rather highly localized concern.
Don’t worry. Even if you are a complete saint, the Internet can still make shit up.
The best approach, I’d say, is making your real achievements eclipse such details.
It’s quite less grating than the “I drive less than you” kind. Beware of the smug emissions of Priuses, as the brilliant South Park episode shown.
My guess is that Musk thinks further forward than model E. The main cost drivers are batteries, motors, and motor controllers. The competition in the latter two is bringing prices down reasonably fast. The late Musk’s venture in the battery factory (and the intention to sell not batteries but battery factories) is an interesting attempt to tackle the first; which will have applications not only for cars but also for smart grid.
I don’t mind, I was reading a tribology handbook and then I got some sleep meanwhile, anyway.
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Chapter I: Limit feedings to keep population manageable.
Chapter II: Do not expose to Klingons
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The need to eat, sleep, or put out the raging fire in your building is a rather highly localized concern. If you don’t attend to rather highly localized concerns first, you won’t get the chance to deal with other issues.
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Strange that people expect a CEO not to be a narcissistic psychopath.
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Just because it’s in a book means that it’s not made up???
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I think this is why I’m taking the accusation with a grain of salt. If Musk were the type of tyrant to ignorantly put his tirades IN WRITING (email is even more permanent than ink on paper), wouldn’t the internet be littered with other examples? Either he’s incredibly stupid about technology (not likely) or this quote-from-an-email isn’t exactly what it’s being presented as.
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I believe that was simply in response to “it’s Business Insider, come on people”. As if Business Insider is somehow making up quotes that aren’t in the book.
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