Fun Fact The Tiles at 3:08 are never worked! Even though at the reveal elon claimed all the houses around him had them installed and operational! This was revealed in the Lawsuit about his aquesition of SolarCity
That's really most of Musk's schtick. Present some fancy idea for a product or some far fetched promise, get investors on board, slowly fail without anyone noticing. Space X promised to have someone on mars in 10 years...back in 2012...
The fact that his main company supports individual traffic in areas where improving public transport would be much more beneficial long term makes me question his longtermism
@Ryan Robichaud Well, you clearly do not understand public transport then. Nobody forces you to travel by train or bus from Los Angeles to New York. But a fast train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, or between Dallas and Austin, is actually a far better way to travel by car, and if you count in the time around flying (check-out, queueing, border and security controls, travel to and from the airport) then it is also faster and more convenient than flying on mid-length distances (ca. 4-6h on train). Also, each city could/should have its own network of local transportation - trams, subway, buses, trolleybuses, etc. And a faster local line (e.g. like the German S-Bahn system) connecting the suburbs to the city centre with a longer stops.
@Ryan Robichaud we have all of the solutions, but people like you never want to change anything, just hope that technology will fix your life in the future. Good luck
What people SAY are their reasons are often not the truth, at least not the whole truth. Apple says it removed chargers from Iphones due to environmentalism, manufacturers say they design their products to be unrepairable for safety/reliability and environmentalists say they oppose climate change but torpedoed nuclear power. Elon does say some nice sounding things, but once you look at the real world follow through and actions...well yeah, he likes money, fame and power -and the personal freedoms that gives him, when he does something in calm and calculated to be massively and unquestionably bad for his fame/wealth/ego but good for humanity -we can talk about his 'long termism'.
Well if that's your view then you probably don't want to put that same lens up to humanity, because you may be disappointed. There is literally nothing that anyone has ever done which didn't result in either a practical or psychological benefit for them. Selflessness is a delusion. That being said, it is fair to ask whether he actually cares about these issues, or is just smart enough to tell where the popularity trends are going. The answer is, who knows? But you could also say the same for most people, are they doing something good because it matters to them? Or because they know that others will appreciate it? I truly doubt most people even realise it themselves, because that level of introspection is beyond what most people are comfortable with, instead people just tell themselves sweet little lies without looking too hard in the mirror.
@@AeneasGemini "There is literally nothing that anyone has ever done which didn't result in either a practical or psychological benefit for them." -figured that out before I knew how babies were made. It's why I distinguish 'selfishness-selflessness' by the expression/form of that drive to satisfy their goal. It's about maintaining self image and ego: if a person believes that a 'good person' spends every Saturday volunteering at a homeless shelter AND that person wants to be a 'good person' more than say sleeping in or watching a movie. etc. -then that person will be at the homeless shelter on Saturday. My point was that I don't think Musk's self image is that of 'the guy who is going to electrify the transport to fight climate change' or 'the guy who is going start a Mars colony to preserve humanity'. I think those are largely deceptions meant to both disguise and aid much less altruistic drivers/goals -ie fame/wealth/worship/etc.
It's possible, but also harder to do, while their actions are well documented, their personal views are more difficult to gage as we have fewer records without something as convenient as the internet to let people broadcast their positions
I think you guys should look at the effect Elon’s actions are doing. It has harmed people(general sense). Prime example is all his projects which are an “alternative to public transportation” when in reality they are just meant to stifle public transportation expansion.
Funny how his longtermism always entails buying something from him. I can appreciate his aspirations to the philosophy, however let's be very clear that it is completely different from the futurism/techno-fetishism he's actually promoting Yes electric cars are important to replace, but we need to be replacing cars in general.
Yes because if you just try longtermism and don't make any money from it, then YOU won't be in the game long term. A decent enough thought but trying to tell people, hey just give away your autonomy to travel is definitely not step 1. I mean hell, that was a big reason why we domesticated the horse.
I don't understand why Americans always see promoting public transport as taking away people's autonomy of travel? if you need to get stuck in traffic to get anywhere, how is that autonomy? Especially if you consider the people that can't afford cars or gas. Having to share a bus or metro car and wait 4 min for the next train isn't giving up autonomy, it's just not wanting to share spaces with other people. From everyone else's point of view, (good) public transportation is what increases people autonomy. An easy example would be teenagers in suburbia who are essentially trapped bc they have no easy transportation options. This isn't even getting into the environmental concerns of building these electric cars on the scale required, let alone if we even have enough of the raw materials like lithium for it. THAT is what is mean when they say they are skeptical of Musk's claims that he is a longtermist.
@@TheResidance That's cause Americans are all about cars, cars, and cars. Their infrastructure was made for cars (because of the automobile industry lobbying when they were first built so they can sell more cars), one of their major corner of industry is about cars, and a lot of their cultural icons are related to cars too.
@@TheResidance Making people replace their cars with EVs is easier than convincing them they don't need a car. The point of EVs is not to fight public transit, though oil companies have paid influencers to post anti-Tesla posts on NUMTOT as a divide and conquer strategy. The point of EVs is to ensure that even car-dependent areas that do not implement public transit, which represent the majority of transport-related emissions, still get an emissions reduction. It also significantly reduces the leverage of oil producers as a major political force in the world by destroying their main source of profit. Oil producers have by far been the largest political force that has pushed climate denial, so breaking them irreversibly by advancing a technology that makes the internal combustion engine obsolete for most applications is critical to getting other forms of climate action going.
I don't know, the video doesn't address if his claims fit what he does. Like how the boring company made a tunnel as a solution for traffic jam but the tunnel itself got a traffic jam
@@tomlxyz it’s just the classic problem with trying to be objective and compromise rather then being truthful. Technically tldr is not lying in this video, but they also left out a lot of important information. How the boring company is a massive fail, how he uses his dumb “free speech” arguments to pull of his dumb stunts and “make friends” with the political right, his sex scandals, how Tesla pushes to become a monopoly, for example they build special charging stations that only work with Tesla, which doesn’t sound like longtermism or whatever to me, how he said that COVID is not that bad and he decided to keep his factories opened which caused his workers to die, how he didn’t even found Tesla, just bought it and made a deal to call himself the founder, how actually dumb half of his ideas are.
@@tomlxyz Funny how the only valid argument against musk is always the tunnels. It's so bad when 1 out of 4 doesn't work. An argument against one of the other companies, please.
@@franekkkkk The topic of the video was his ideology. There is always a gap between ideology and reality, more or less barring none. The discussion of his execution is a far more controversial and firey topic by its very nature, a topic more fit for drama channels or specific coverage, not an ideology summary. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an ex muskrat and a current rabid SpaceX fan who wish's he'd just shut up and disappear before he damages that majestic company.)
@@gpsfinancial6988I don't know what an UAW is, but i guess it is a union inerica and I don't know about amerika, but in germany, Unions are kind of a big deal, on the same level as businesses in fact, and they don't like if a company messes with them. And since it isn't legal to fire someone because he is in a Union, at least membership is very easy to obtain.
I am shocked about how they take Musk's marketing at face value. The Boring Company and Solar shingles were not disrutive in the least: they were marketing campaigns for products that did not yet exist.
Musk only believes in freedom of speech when it isn't criticising him or when it isn't promoting commercial products (spam). He's fired employees who spoke out against him, he's terminated customers who spoke out against his products, and one of his central goals with the purchase of twitter was to restrict the freedom of speech of spammers (good!). That's fine, most sensible people oppose spambots and most people don't like speech that is critical of themselves. But worth remembering, for all his talk, his actions show he actually strongly opposes freedom of speech almost all the time.
Your'e conflating free speech with tolerance and business. These are not the same thing. Should we be tolerant of other people? Yes we should. But we shouldn't be tolerant of the intolerant. Stopping Nazis for example and hate speech. A business should be able to protect its assets. If you had a business where an employee was stealing company secrets you'd stop that. Are you saying that if your employee was badmouthing you, you wouldn't do something about that?
Musk says a lot that he's thinking about the long term, but his actions indicate otherwise. Pretending like electric cars will solve climate change while actively fighting against public transportation is not thinking long-term. Participating in market manipulation is not thinking long-term. The entire mess that is the purchase of Twitter is not thinking long-term. A more accurate to describe him that he is good at and constantly mastering the art of attracting fanboys. So, rather than the mix you suggested, it's actually mostly just showmanship.
You are omitting that electrification solves the non renewable energy problem. That is ABSOLUTELY long term thinking….climate change aside, the bottom line is that we will run out of fossil fuel and fossil fuel cannot be found anywhere else in the known universe unless you know a planet with dead dinosaur
2:27 building personal automobiles runs counter to the long term wellbeing of the species. Sabotaging public transport projects with BS runs counter to this as well.
It already was. Jamie Dimon of Chase has vast political power every time he opens his mouth in the media and his Covid era actions rival those of diplomats with diplomatic passports, pissing all over rules that are valid for all other people. Hell, Henry Ford had IMMENSE political power until WW2.
The issue with Tesla is they're pushing for more sustainable travel but only through the use of their cars. Sure, that's something that any car company strives for but the difference is... The other companies tend to make buses too which are generally a better and more effective/efficient mode of transport. People in rural areas will probably always need something like a Tesla but generally better public transport can do a much better job than that new highway/motorway your government just invested billions into when it comes to traffic.* Musk definitely has a weird attitude when it comes to public transportation as it definitely clashes with the Liberty part of his personality. All his solutions tend to have low passenger counts per vehicle and tend to bear close resemblance to some form of train, only more inefficient in how they operate. Anyway, that's the unnecessary essay in the comments out the way that I do occasionally. *When done right of course... This video really feels like a twitter thread/shitpost in a way and I kinda like it.
But it’s not just cars. Tesla is making an ambitious attempt to engineer cheap and high energy density battery cells. This will aid in their solar and stationary storage products.
@@blaccpanther8715 Sure, and it's great they're doing that. But that's not the fundamental issue I'm trying to point out. I'm focusing on transportation, not our electricity grids.
@@blaccpanther8715 Tesla hasn't really pioneered anything new there, they still rely on Panasonic. Solar panels today are not the future because they don't last long and are unreliable; nuclear energy and geothermal plants are probably the best solutions as they last long and are extremely reliable.
Better public transport is more efficient yes, but they have to be able to finance what they do, which they've done by selling high then lower value cars. They are now making lorries which have a large impact on emissions. I'm not exactly sure about the boring company. I think there could be a lot of potential benefits. Maybe a traffic jam underground will be preferable to one in LA during the summer, or any other place for that matter with the way global warming is.
@@trevornganga7298 This is a common misunderstanding. Putting my disagreement aside, whether Tesla make anything new or pioneering is trivial. Engineering is not about inventing new tech. If Tesla engineers deliver on their goal to reduce the cost per kWh of their battery cells by a further 40% then that is incredible progress regardless of them not inventing nor pioneering batteries. Tesla engineering has repeatedly outperformed the expectations set by industry experts since the original roadster was considered a suicide mission in the automotive market. Tesla engineers have manufactured batteries that are cobalt free. Tesla engineering has created an expansive solar powered charging infrastructure. Tesla engineering has created electric cars with the greatest automotive gross margins of any mass manufactured car in history. So whether the shit is new means fuck all.
I respect his entrepreneurial spirit and abilities, but he is too full of himself and incapable of changing his mind about areas that he's not well-versed in (e.g. the basics of public transport and why The Boring Company is a bad idea, the damage to astronomy caused by Starlink)
@@ericback6120 I do watch his videos and agree with a lot of their messages, but I don't like them because he is too cynical and bitter in tone. You don't convince/educate people by being a prick.
@@jakemcgough5121 Well I think you were right about ventures he is/was already successful in, such as PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, but I don't think he does that for all of his ventures by default. Also, he is causing severe and irreversible damage to astronomical research through Starlink, which I think is very very bad for the future of humanity but often gets thrown under the rug.
His ideology you discribe is a fassade- his fans thinks he thinks like that, but one thing is forgotten : His projects are just old technologies put toguether in slick ways and has fancy guyz explaining how revolutionary everything he does is. For my part nothing he says he believe is reel only thing is clear is that he got rich AF.
That's the conclusion I come to believe in. He has no ideology, it's all just a cover for his regular Billionaire BS. He is no different from any regular plutocrat, he just understood PR better than the other plutocrats...
And so Musk shows promotes free speech and individual liberty by opening a factory in...the police state of China, which shows its respect for the individual and free speech with social credit scores, constant AI-enhanced monitoring, and chilling facial recognition and of all conversations at all times? Hmm....not sure that makes sense. This also suggests that it is really all about $$ and perhaps the rest is wrapping paper. All this said, I do respect Musk. No matter how flamboyant, his emphasis on the long term is refreshing when most corporate CEOs are all about the next quarter and plumping up the stock price to improve the value of their stock options.
The not a flamethrower is literally not a flamethrower though. It is a propane torch. Actual flamethrowers have a range of 60 m or longer and are basically a firehose that shoots napalm instead of water. But it looks like what hollywood and videogames call flamethrowers.
So many people here are conflating free speech with business practices. People should have free speech absolutely. But companies employ people to do jobs. If an employee is doing or saying things that could damage a business or other employees then a company is within its contract /rights to deal with that. Of course an employee can say whatever they want, but in the same vane a business has the right to respond to that. Free speech is still respected here.
"People should have free speech absolutely. But..." I won't say you'e stupid but ... ;) Funny little word 'but' is. It has the power to ignore, negate, or imply anything sayd before it is invalid. (note: I didn't call you stupid. I do however plead guilty to implying your stupid by only using the word 'but', to hammer home the point 'but' typically negates anything preceding it) "If an employee is doing or saying things that could damage a business..." ironically this is exactly the critiscism the fired employees raised on musk. Did the fired employees actually damage the bussiness in any way? "Free speech is still respected here." Free speech is not respected if the employees did their job and didn't do anything to damage the company (in contrast in one infamous occasion Musk's actions caused Tesla stocks to drop significancly overnight). Currently, speaking out against their boss they only damaged Musk's ego. On a related note, testifying to Musk's charachter. A while ago LegalEagle had an interesting story where Musk demanded a law-firm fired a lawyer. The was not in that was not involved in any Musk-related legal-projects. Musk was offended at the guy being employed by a law-firm affiliated with some of his companies.
I hate the narratives pushing Musk as him caring about the future, global warming and sustainability. The guy has publicly expressed his desdain for public forms of transportation, the only real and sustainable solution to the impact of transportation in the ecosystem. But its not only mere desdain, Musk has actively boicoted the development of railway systems in California and in other parts of the US and the world. He is not a green messiah, that is only a facade that does nothing but worsening the problem at hand by pushing a hyper capitalist view of the future that will lead to the decimation of the reaources of our planet.
@@florianschneider3982 But if he retires he can't offer the world more his wonderful personality. His ego won't allow himto retire. So many twitter wars to win, so much crypto to lose, so many headlines to create. He needs to be the center of the Universe all the time.
@@joluoto Even if you were right, the things he does are beneficial to all of humanity. It doesn't really matter if he's doing it out of selfishness or not.
I'm not sure I agree that Tesla is about sustainable travel; it's just about selling cars. The very act of selling cars is contrary to sustainable travel, which should focus more on public transport and redesign of cities over individuals hulking around 2 tonnes of metal everywhere they go. And when you read about how the Boring Company was basically created to disrupt the construction of the California High Speed rail project because "public transport sucks". And when you consider that he's more focused on making rockets and electric cars and buying Twitter than actually investing in real, existing solutions to climate change - humanity's greatest threat - all whilst hoarding enormous wealth for himself, it's hard to believe he's interested in the long term of humanity more than his own life.
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@@nicolavalle1524 In situations like this,I always recommend to people on getting guidance at least from someone that understands price action and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.
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You know it’s impossible to not have an ideology, right? If every ideology has the same problem, and every person follows an ideology, than there isn’t a problem to begin with.
Could've done a little bit better here guys. It isn't hard to find examples that contradict his philosophies as stated in this video. You could've made this analysis more objective without making it less neutral. Just a couple of things: - He didn't found Tesla - he's preaching free speech but at the same time tried to bribe a guy on twitter to stop posting his flight information - he used the boring company to actually stop improvements to public transport in California
I think Elon is a remarkable man, he's brave in many respects, with a few admirable qualities. I find people who worship him annoying, blind religious or political fervour isn't for me. Critics of Musk (see the comments below) also make valid points and keep me grounded about my opinion of him.
2:33 the way you worded it implies that Elon was working for “long termism” in all his companies. In fact he has only done actions RELATED to this idea after he was booted off of PayPal for his actions(they were not seen as “long termism”, in fact they were seen as detrimental to the company)(okay not detrimental, but enough to kick him off of the company)
He was the founder and owner of paypal, you can’t be kicked off from your own company, he just sold it to ebay and used the money to dedicate to other projects.
Did the other PayPal executives see Musk's plan for the company as being likely detrimental (or more precisely, overly-risky at a time when they felt that the company needed to reduce risk because the recession had struck and investment had dried up)? Yes. But I don't think that you can accuse those plans of being not focused on the long-term good of society. Musk wanted to aggressively expand PayPal (which he asserted should by named "X", with "PayPal" just being the name for its payment services) into providing a full range of banking services. He believed that the company's innovations would give it a strong competitive advantage over established banks that would make it the biggest company in the world and more efficiently connect funding to innovators who could create something valuable for the world.
Elon occasionally has some good ideas, he wouldn't be so successful if he didn't. The problem is he has the biggest ego of any CEO in modern times to an almost cartoonish level, he think he's an expert on everything and sticks his nose in where it isn't wanted.
@@florianschneider3982 The number of times he wades in on fields he has little knowledge and experience on, or confidently says his latest idea will revolutionise X or Y even when it's clearly flawed from the start. He also seems to relish in the power he has, playing games with corporations and stocks almost seemingly for his own amusement.
@@Croz89 Name one idea apart from the boring company (which is currently in its infancy) that is flawed. He can answer highly complex questions about any of his companies. This is something that is unusual for a CEO. So your first sentence is a lie. could you give me an example of where he relish his power?
@@florianschneider3982 Hyperloop, those solar roof tiles, and that silly submarine he proposed for the cave rescue to start. He's also been slapped on the wrist for manipulating his stock price over tweet where he didn't seem to be taking it at all seriously. And we can't forget about what he said regarding Ukraine. I know, there's a million armchair generals and diplomats on Twitter, but when you're the richest person on earth, people listen to you, and you have to understand that before tweeting. Use an anonymous account if you want to play that role.
@@Croz89 1. hyperloop was his idea but he never intended to do anything with it. There are several companies around the world currently working on prototypes. I would wait a few more years before calling this a failure. 2. The solar roof tiles work and are money printers for the customers. 3. The submarine was silly but only because the cave would have been too narrow for it and tesla only had a few days. 4. He never manipulated any stock price. He said something he's thinking about and the market reacted irrationally. 5. Of course he didn't take it seriously the whole situation was ridiculous.
Really wished you touched on his history of supporting Universal Basic Income. Nowadays, he supports no wealth tax, so how exactly can we find UBI? Almost as if he needs to lie to keep poor people on side.
Neither neuralink or the boring company are disruptive and musk's solar panel venture was a complete disaster. Tesla was certainly disruptive and spaceX but they cannot be compared to the other ventures.
You are sticking a fork in projects that are still on going. And y’all never learn lmao. If Tesla deliver on their goal to reduce cost per kWhr by a further 40% then the solar roof will be extremely competitive in the market
@@theSafetyCar Most of what he does makes him lose money. If you were even remotely right he would quit tesla and spacex and spend the rest of his life on a tropical island. Do you have reasons for your obviously wrong opinion or do you make it up spontaneously?
Musk has said people should have more children (he has 10 children). Noting that the overpopulation that everyone thought would happen is not going to happen. The world population will peak at around 10 billion mid-century, and by the end of this century be the same as it is now. But he has also said the AI will put people out of work, and we will NEED UBI to support part of the population. I can not square the two viewpoints. Q: Why should people have more children, if there are not going to be enough jobs to support them as adults? Q: A smaller population would help the plant? Which will help humans long-term.
It's so confusing to me why public transit advocates screech so much about the boring company. You could easily put 20 seat minibuses in those tunnels if you wanted to. The actual vehicle that goes into the tunnel and the business structure and capacity of passenger throughput is a detail thats just layered on top of a fundamental technological breakthrough. That breakthrough being: drilling tunnels really cheap and really fast. Missing the forest for the trees.
Speaking of disruptive… that organ music is very jarring and distracting. :( Particularly when I usually have to turn up the sound to listen to the audio then BOOM clunky organ.
I really disagree with this video. Elon Musk is an entrepreneur, a good one at that, a good showman... but he isn't someone who gives a damn about "long termism" or the climate. He isn't someone who sat long and hard and came up with solutions to solve humanities problems (except if colonizing Mars when we can't colonize Sahara, Siberia or the Australian Desert is a solution to overpopulation or food crisis). He is someone who took many gambles, fucked up people with rug pulls ( talking about Doge and all his crypto stunts). He is a person who is ruining a generation by build a cult of personality and lies (see how he lied about his life up until the rise of Tesla) on the backs of others. IMO the ideology of Elon is he ideology of every narcissistic dictator of the 20th century - make my life good while ruining it for others and blaming the US government for their miserable lives. Edit: He is also a credit stealer : He didn't do shit with PayPal nor his brother and he also isn't the founder of Tesla.
Yet somehow people follow him to build cars, rockets, brain computer interfaces, AI and consumers and governments funds his endeavors. He musk be an extremely competent dictator. 😅
To judge a person you must look at all thier actions, not what they say. Someone could say they support certain policies while funding politicians who lobby against those policies.
@@jefitoo he reinvented the tunnel,he builds very expensive cars that aren't that great compared to his competitors nowadays, his rockets don't mean shit since they don't help humanity solve it's problems,just waste valuable resources and his "breakthroughs"? in AI aren't seen, so I guess be is a master of camouflage.
A person has two reasons for doing anything, the good reason and the real reason. What we all see here is the good reason. We don't know his real reason, only himself know it
Hi guys, love your videos but I just can't cope with the audio any longer. Can you please have the general volume a bit louder? I can't raise my PC's beyond 100% and also, can you use some compression? (not file compression but audio compression) So that there's less crazy peaks between a shout and a whisper. Thanks
The mission statement for Tesla is "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. " That encompases much more than electric cars. Semi trucks, grid-scale batteries, selling electricity back to electric companies during high demand, etc. Elon is an incredible genius when it comes to future technologies and starting companies to implement them. He gets into trouble when he talks about anything else. As a big Elon fan it drives me _nuts_ when he tweets some dumb-ass thing that gets him in trouble. Especially when he gets into politics. Pissing millions of people off unnecessarily does nothing to advance his aims.
Elon has (I think funny) sense of humor. I think you are misinterpreting some of this as showmanship. Elon is trying to improve the future of humanity much more than trying to raise his personal profile. He literally sleeps on the floor of his car factories to make sure they are working correctly. When he's doing that he's not trying to raise his public profile.
Surprisingly good video (some people just _detest_ Elon and do nothing but spew criticism about him) right up to the end where you say he makes decisions about his public profile over making good business decisions.
"when he tweets some dumb-ass thing that gets him in trouble" Because he is such an all-round genius. "He literally sleeps on the floor of his car factories to make sure they are working correctly." This sounds like a publicity stunt we'd have to take musk at his word for.
Musk's mirage of long-termism unfortunately happens to hide rather short-term focused benefits - to him personally. It's beneficial to him to appear revolutionary, and to look like a genius. It's part of his brand. But even setting aside some of his questionable outbursts on twitter, his plans tend to lack substance; they're more suited to distraction, than achievement. He's been promising self-driving tech for years. Cybertruck too is years behind first promises. He promised a revolution in underground transit, yet years after he first claimed to have breakthroughs just around the corner, he can barely build a tunnel and only at uncompetitive prices. His promises of a Mars base are both intrinsically worthless, and way behind schedule. He promised solar roofs, then paid himself with Tesla investor's money to bail out that failed venture. Musks actions, as opposed to his words, seem aligned with somebody who shrewdly saw an opportunity to hitch his fortune to a real problem and make short-term gains for himself. Along the way, he's inspired many very clever people (and bought good ideas, like Tesla) - and they have indeed delivered some pretty awesome stuff. Awesome... but still fairly mundane stuff that other companies likely would have provided had Elon's hype machine left any oxygen in the room for them to grow. Elon wasn't the magic sauce here; plain old engineering diligence was. And he's certainly not delivered on the kind of grandiose plans he keeps on spouting. Tesla's EVs are more sustainable than an ICE. But they're still very inefficient by relying on and requiring car infrastructure; it's hardly a very plausible solution world-wide, not just for sustainability reasons, but also simply of cost. SpaceX makes good rockets - but at over an order of magnitude greater launch cost than Elon promised, and with over an order of magnitude slower reuse than promised. His satellite constellation might create orbital debris risks, and he's not going to be able to put a settlement on mars, not even at a decade behind schedule - and even if that aim were achievable, it wouldn't actually spread the risk to humanity from astronomic cataclysm as he claims. Elon Musks _followers_ are longtermists, and I wish them all the success. But Elon is decidedly not; he looks much more like an overly rich conman that's leveraged incremental improvements into revolutionary stockprices with his unfounded hype.
Except he did not invent anything, just purchased other peoples companies with his fathers emerald mine money. And then told his employees to invent stuff. Much of which is utter crap (like the Vegas loop).
2:50 Ford literally sold electric vehicles before musk(now ford did discontinue it, but the fact is that does sold e-cars before musk, and before it was shut down it had delievered more cars as well)
Musk is too invested in libertarianism. He should stick to his last of engineering. Libertarians assume all people have all the information to make informed decisions and that people never want to harm others an unfortunate assumption made by many economists. People covetously control information and often are very selfish and hurtful. We wouldn't need any government if that wasn't so.
In typical liberterian fashion though, he only disregards authority above him, but is fine with having authority over others. True rightwinger, one might say.
Advocate of free speech - when it is about him... but less so when it is about employees in his factories... one rule for him and one for everyone else...
@@mityaboy4639 That's not what I've heard. I've heard that he strongly encourages anyone in the company (at any level) to speak up if they have an idea or see a problem. He doesn't like "yes-men" who just go along with things, and engineers are most in danger of being let go if they are not creative enough. Caveat: I have not actually worked at any of his companies, so it's second-hand info.
@@L4JP Look, he might have said that that. Truly he might. But so what? People lieall the time. I think it is more important to look at what other people say about that. I highly suggests this youtube channel that dives deeply in to Musk: th-cam.com/channels/gKWj1pn3_7hRSFIypunYog.html
I find him sketch. He over promises and under delivers. Then there is questionable crypto current dealings and buying his brother's solar panel company with company money.
you should've mentioned how boring company has achieved so far in improving technologies in digging by how much...many people doesn't really know that cars in tunneling is one thing but how those minds work in boring companies have accelerated the digging capacity and their prediction goals is how many times of what's today possible.
The "service we'built with our creator friends.." line is..anoying. Nebula making you do this is a serious misstep. Everyone in the world and their grandmother knows how long Nebula has been around, and they know you haven't "built it with your creator friends", you just joined it. This is treating people as if they're idiots. And that's, as I said, annoying.
That particular statement, about "creating a platform with friends" is repeated on so many channels, so many times that it's hard to think that the TLDR guys made it up. It an anoying piece od Nebula marketing.
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The boring Company isn't any disruption or new ideas, it's an extra lane of a highway underground
How to make an underground train but worse
Fun Fact The Tiles at 3:08 are never worked! Even though at the reveal elon claimed all the houses around him had them installed and operational! This was revealed in the Lawsuit about his aquesition of SolarCity
That's really most of Musk's schtick. Present some fancy idea for a product or some far fetched promise, get investors on board, slowly fail without anyone noticing. Space X promised to have someone on mars in 10 years...back in 2012...
Elon Musk is a con man and all of his companies are frauds.. It’s amazing that the general public is just now coming around to this
The fact that his main company supports individual traffic in areas where improving public transport would be much more beneficial long term makes me question his longtermism
@Ryan Robichaud Well, you clearly do not understand public transport then. Nobody forces you to travel by train or bus from Los Angeles to New York. But a fast train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, or between Dallas and Austin, is actually a far better way to travel by car, and if you count in the time around flying (check-out, queueing, border and security controls, travel to and from the airport) then it is also faster and more convenient than flying on mid-length distances (ca. 4-6h on train).
Also, each city could/should have its own network of local transportation - trams, subway, buses, trolleybuses, etc. And a faster local line (e.g. like the German S-Bahn system) connecting the suburbs to the city centre with a longer stops.
@Ryan Robichaud we have all of the solutions, but people like you never want to change anything, just hope that technology will fix your life in the future. Good luck
Electric cars to internal combustion ones are like e-cigs to tobacco. They don't address the underlying problem.
@Ryan Robichaud only because we don’t find it dumb dumb.
@Ryan Robichaud add more cars(even if they are e-card) will not reduce traffic(traffic is too MUCH cars on the road)
Looks like your editing team is having fun
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What people SAY are their reasons are often not the truth, at least not the whole truth.
Apple says it removed chargers from Iphones due to environmentalism, manufacturers say they design their products to be unrepairable for safety/reliability and environmentalists say they oppose climate change but torpedoed nuclear power.
Elon does say some nice sounding things, but once you look at the real world follow through and actions...well yeah, he likes money, fame and power -and the personal freedoms that gives him, when he does something in calm and calculated to be massively and unquestionably bad for his fame/wealth/ego but good for humanity -we can talk about his 'long termism'.
Some environmentalists oppose nuclear* I for one, am very muc for it.
Much like the whole "net-zero" movement companies are trying to sell. Their "net-zero" isn't actually what most people think it means or does.
Well if that's your view then you probably don't want to put that same lens up to humanity, because you may be disappointed.
There is literally nothing that anyone has ever done which didn't result in either a practical or psychological benefit for them. Selflessness is a delusion.
That being said, it is fair to ask whether he actually cares about these issues, or is just smart enough to tell where the popularity trends are going. The answer is, who knows? But you could also say the same for most people, are they doing something good because it matters to them? Or because they know that others will appreciate it?
I truly doubt most people even realise it themselves, because that level of introspection is beyond what most people are comfortable with, instead people just tell themselves sweet little lies without looking too hard in the mirror.
@@AeneasGemini "There is literally nothing that anyone has ever done which didn't result in either a practical or psychological benefit for them."
-figured that out before I knew how babies were made.
It's why I distinguish 'selfishness-selflessness' by the expression/form of that drive to satisfy their goal.
It's about maintaining self image and ego: if a person believes that a 'good person' spends every Saturday volunteering at a homeless shelter AND that person wants to be a 'good person' more than say sleeping in or watching a movie. etc. -then that person will be at the homeless shelter on Saturday.
My point was that I don't think Musk's self image is that of 'the guy who is going to electrify the transport to fight climate change' or 'the guy who is going start a Mars colony to preserve humanity'.
I think those are largely deceptions meant to both disguise and aid much less altruistic drivers/goals -ie fame/wealth/worship/etc.
It would also be interesting to review the ideologies of businessmen of the past such as Rhodes or Rockefeller
I think that they mainly do modern stuff.
Making money, influencying politics and eugenics, for sure.
Why? They dead and gone. More interesting the ones influencing now. Like George Soros. wtf is he and whats he sneaking around doing?
@@TheBooban History is still important to learn from the past and of its effects.
It's possible, but also harder to do, while their actions are well documented, their personal views are more difficult to gage as we have fewer records without something as convenient as the internet to let people broadcast their positions
His ideology is that of teenagers, constantly changing depending on who they are attempting to troll
Agreed , also surprisingly poor meme taste .
Your picture trolled me :D I admit that I actually tried to remove that "eyelash" with the tip of my finger.
As a teenager I 100% agree with this message
@@martafixarcoolt5993 haha, why don't you use dark mode?
I think you guys should look at the effect Elon’s actions are doing. It has harmed people(general sense). Prime example is all his projects which are an “alternative to public transportation” when in reality they are just meant to stifle public transportation expansion.
Funny how his longtermism always entails buying something from him.
I can appreciate his aspirations to the philosophy, however let's be very clear that it is completely different from the futurism/techno-fetishism he's actually promoting
Yes electric cars are important to replace, but we need to be replacing cars in general.
Yes because if you just try longtermism and don't make any money from it, then YOU won't be in the game long term.
A decent enough thought but trying to tell people, hey just give away your autonomy to travel is definitely not step 1. I mean hell, that was a big reason why we domesticated the horse.
I don't understand why Americans always see promoting public transport as taking away people's autonomy of travel? if you need to get stuck in traffic to get anywhere, how is that autonomy? Especially if you consider the people that can't afford cars or gas. Having to share a bus or metro car and wait 4 min for the next train isn't giving up autonomy, it's just not wanting to share spaces with other people.
From everyone else's point of view, (good) public transportation is what increases people autonomy. An easy example would be teenagers in suburbia who are essentially trapped bc they have no easy transportation options.
This isn't even getting into the environmental concerns of building these electric cars on the scale required, let alone if we even have enough of the raw materials like lithium for it. THAT is what is mean when they say they are skeptical of Musk's claims that he is a longtermist.
@@TheResidance That's cause Americans are all about cars, cars, and cars. Their infrastructure was made for cars (because of the automobile industry lobbying when they were first built so they can sell more cars), one of their major corner of industry is about cars, and a lot of their cultural icons are related to cars too.
@@TheResidance Making people replace their cars with EVs is easier than convincing them they don't need a car.
The point of EVs is not to fight public transit, though oil companies have paid influencers to post anti-Tesla posts on NUMTOT as a divide and conquer strategy. The point of EVs is to ensure that even car-dependent areas that do not implement public transit, which represent the majority of transport-related emissions, still get an emissions reduction.
It also significantly reduces the leverage of oil producers as a major political force in the world by destroying their main source of profit. Oil producers have by far been the largest political force that has pushed climate denial, so breaking them irreversibly by advancing a technology that makes the internal combustion engine obsolete for most applications is critical to getting other forms of climate action going.
Finally a real analysis of Elon's persona - equally far away from fanboysm and slander, acknowledging both the man's achievements and flaws.
Yeah, that's one of the great things about TLDR... It's actually well balanced news and generally pretty accurate.
I don't know, the video doesn't address if his claims fit what he does. Like how the boring company made a tunnel as a solution for traffic jam but the tunnel itself got a traffic jam
@@tomlxyz it’s just the classic problem with trying to be objective and compromise rather then being truthful. Technically tldr is not lying in this video, but they also left out a lot of important information. How the boring company is a massive fail, how he uses his dumb “free speech” arguments to pull of his dumb stunts and “make friends” with the political right, his sex scandals, how Tesla pushes to become a monopoly, for example they build special charging stations that only work with Tesla, which doesn’t sound like longtermism or whatever to me, how he said that COVID is not that bad and he decided to keep his factories opened which caused his workers to die, how he didn’t even found Tesla, just bought it and made a deal to call himself the founder, how actually dumb half of his ideas are.
@@tomlxyz Funny how the only valid argument against musk is always the tunnels.
It's so bad when 1 out of 4 doesn't work.
An argument against one of the other companies, please.
@@franekkkkk The topic of the video was his ideology. There is always a gap between ideology and reality, more or less barring none. The discussion of his execution is a far more controversial and firey topic by its very nature, a topic more fit for drama channels or specific coverage, not an ideology summary.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I am an ex muskrat and a current rabid SpaceX fan who wish's he'd just shut up and disappear before he damages that majestic company.)
To be clear Tesla and SpaceX actually did something, but Boring and Neurolink disrupt nothing.
The organ music is annoying, consider removing or toning it down for future pls, if your gonna consider using it again in future vids.
Yeah I enjoyed the intro but became a bit much with the interludes
He is for free speech and against Unions. Something doesn't add up.
Of course it adds up. He's a Republican.
You might want to check out how many of the UAW leaders are under investigation or already in jail. Good unions can be a good thing......
Elon is for his freedom of speech, not necessarily anyone else's.
and he also fires up people who speak against him. So he's pro "free speech"
@@gpsfinancial6988I don't know what an UAW is, but i guess it is a union inerica and I don't know about amerika, but in germany, Unions are kind of a big deal, on the same level as businesses in fact, and they don't like if a company messes with them. And since it isn't legal to fire someone because he is in a Union, at least membership is very easy to obtain.
I am shocked about how they take Musk's marketing at face value. The Boring Company and Solar shingles were not disrutive in the least: they were marketing campaigns for products that did not yet exist.
I just wish his taste in memes was better
Hes in his 50s, good enough
me walking into the room and shitting on the floor is 'disruptive'
Musk only believes in freedom of speech when it isn't criticising him or when it isn't promoting commercial products (spam). He's fired employees who spoke out against him, he's terminated customers who spoke out against his products, and one of his central goals with the purchase of twitter was to restrict the freedom of speech of spammers (good!). That's fine, most sensible people oppose spambots and most people don't like speech that is critical of themselves. But worth remembering, for all his talk, his actions show he actually strongly opposes freedom of speech almost all the time.
Your'e conflating free speech with tolerance and business. These are not the same thing. Should we be tolerant of other people? Yes we should. But we shouldn't be tolerant of the intolerant. Stopping Nazis for example and hate speech. A business should be able to protect its assets. If you had a business where an employee was stealing company secrets you'd stop that. Are you saying that if your employee was badmouthing you, you wouldn't do something about that?
Musk says a lot that he's thinking about the long term, but his actions indicate otherwise. Pretending like electric cars will solve climate change while actively fighting against public transportation is not thinking long-term. Participating in market manipulation is not thinking long-term. The entire mess that is the purchase of Twitter is not thinking long-term.
A more accurate to describe him that he is good at and constantly mastering the art of attracting fanboys.
So, rather than the mix you suggested, it's actually mostly just showmanship.
You are omitting that electrification solves the non renewable energy problem. That is ABSOLUTELY long term thinking….climate change aside, the bottom line is that we will run out of fossil fuel and fossil fuel cannot be found anywhere else in the known universe unless you know a planet with dead dinosaur
Like the video, but hate that transition between “chapter”.
2:27 building personal automobiles runs counter to the long term wellbeing of the species.
Sabotaging public transport projects with BS runs counter to this as well.
CEO is the new political figure
It already was.
Jamie Dimon of Chase has vast political power every time he opens his mouth in the media and his Covid era actions rival those of diplomats with diplomatic passports, pissing all over rules that are valid for all other people.
Hell, Henry Ford had IMMENSE political power until WW2.
He cares about long term solutions for mankind.... so long as it doesn't stands in the way of making a profit . Everything Musk does benefits Musk.
It’s not what it looks like. He has no choice but to keep increasing profits, that’s his duty to the shareholders
@@blaccpanther8715 he's the major shareholder. You don't get the richest man in the world by being a philantropist. That's life.
The issue with Tesla is they're pushing for more sustainable travel but only through the use of their cars.
Sure, that's something that any car company strives for but the difference is... The other companies tend to make buses too which are generally a better and more effective/efficient mode of transport.
People in rural areas will probably always need something like a Tesla but generally better public transport can do a much better job than that new highway/motorway your government just invested billions into when it comes to traffic.*
Musk definitely has a weird attitude when it comes to public transportation as it definitely clashes with the Liberty part of his personality. All his solutions tend to have low passenger counts per vehicle and tend to bear close resemblance to some form of train, only more inefficient in how they operate.
Anyway, that's the unnecessary essay in the comments out the way that I do occasionally.
*When done right of course...
This video really feels like a twitter thread/shitpost in a way and I kinda like it.
But it’s not just cars. Tesla is making an ambitious attempt to engineer cheap and high energy density battery cells. This will aid in their solar and stationary storage products.
@@blaccpanther8715 Sure, and it's great they're doing that. But that's not the fundamental issue I'm trying to point out.
I'm focusing on transportation, not our electricity grids.
@@blaccpanther8715 Tesla hasn't really pioneered anything new there, they still rely on Panasonic. Solar panels today are not the future because they don't last long and are unreliable; nuclear energy and geothermal plants are probably the best solutions as they last long and are extremely reliable.
Better public transport is more efficient yes, but they have to be able to finance what they do, which they've done by selling high then lower value cars. They are now making lorries which have a large impact on emissions. I'm not exactly sure about the boring company. I think there could be a lot of potential benefits. Maybe a traffic jam underground will be preferable to one in LA during the summer, or any other place for that matter with the way global warming is.
@@trevornganga7298 This is a common misunderstanding. Putting my disagreement aside, whether Tesla make anything new or pioneering is trivial.
Engineering is not about inventing new tech. If Tesla engineers deliver on their goal to reduce the cost per kWh of their battery cells by a further 40% then that is incredible progress regardless of them not inventing nor pioneering batteries.
Tesla engineering has repeatedly outperformed the expectations set by industry experts since the original roadster was considered a suicide mission in the automotive market.
Tesla engineers have manufactured batteries that are cobalt free. Tesla engineering has created an expansive solar powered charging infrastructure. Tesla engineering has created electric cars with the greatest automotive gross margins of any mass manufactured car in history.
So whether the shit is new means fuck all.
I see someone needs to watch some Common Sense Skeptic
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I have to say, the clerical organ music gets old fast.
I respect his entrepreneurial spirit and abilities, but he is too full of himself and incapable of changing his mind about areas that he's not well-versed in (e.g. the basics of public transport and why The Boring Company is a bad idea, the damage to astronomy caused by Starlink)
You my fellow person should watch Adam something
I believe that isn't true. And compliments his weaknesses by seeking out tho who excel at those projects to work alongside him
@@jakemcgough5121 please explain to me how the Vegas loop is "inviting those who excel in a field" to work alongside him?
@@ericback6120 I do watch his videos and agree with a lot of their messages, but I don't like them because he is too cynical and bitter in tone. You don't convince/educate people by being a prick.
@@jakemcgough5121 Well I think you were right about ventures he is/was already successful in, such as PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, but I don't think he does that for all of his ventures by default. Also, he is causing severe and irreversible damage to astronomical research through Starlink, which I think is very very bad for the future of humanity but often gets thrown under the rug.
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Objectivity vs Neutrality in a nutshell
His ideology you discribe is a fassade- his fans thinks he thinks like that, but one thing is forgotten : His projects are just old technologies put toguether in slick ways and has fancy guyz explaining how revolutionary everything he does is. For my part nothing he says he believe is reel only thing is clear is that he got rich AF.
That's the conclusion I come to believe in. He has no ideology, it's all just a cover for his regular Billionaire BS. He is no different from any regular plutocrat, he just understood PR better than the other plutocrats...
That intro was hilarious 😂. Love it.
If musk really cared about earth he would promote public transport and not cars
He does
And so Musk shows promotes free speech and individual liberty by opening a factory in...the police state of China, which shows its respect for the individual and free speech with social credit scores, constant AI-enhanced monitoring, and chilling facial recognition and of all conversations at all times?
Hmm....not sure that makes sense. This also suggests that it is really all about $$ and perhaps the rest is wrapping paper.
All this said, I do respect Musk. No matter how flamboyant, his emphasis on the long term is refreshing when most corporate CEOs are all about the next quarter and plumping up the stock price to improve the value of their stock options.
Please do not use that creepy organ music EVER AGAIN!
The not a flamethrower is literally not a flamethrower though. It is a propane torch. Actual flamethrowers have a range of 60 m or longer and are basically a firehose that shoots napalm instead of water. But it looks like what hollywood and videogames call flamethrowers.
WHY the church sounds, why?
I like the organ music
So many people here are conflating free speech with business practices. People should have free speech absolutely. But companies employ people to do jobs. If an employee is doing or saying things that could damage a business or other employees then a company is within its contract /rights to deal with that. Of course an employee can say whatever they want, but in the same vane a business has the right to respond to that. Free speech is still respected here.
"People should have free speech absolutely. But..."
I won't say you'e stupid but ... ;)
Funny little word 'but' is. It has the power to ignore, negate, or imply anything sayd before it is invalid. (note: I didn't call you stupid. I do however plead guilty to implying your stupid by only using the word 'but', to hammer home the point 'but' typically negates anything preceding it)
"If an employee is doing or saying things that could damage a business..."
ironically this is exactly the critiscism the fired employees raised on musk. Did the fired employees actually damage the bussiness in any way?
"Free speech is still respected here."
Free speech is not respected if the employees did their job and didn't do anything to damage the company (in contrast in one infamous occasion Musk's actions caused Tesla stocks to drop significancly overnight).
Currently, speaking out against their boss they only damaged Musk's ego. On a related note, testifying to Musk's charachter. A while ago LegalEagle had an interesting story where Musk demanded a law-firm fired a lawyer. The was not in that was not involved in any Musk-related legal-projects. Musk was offended at the guy being employed by a law-firm affiliated with some of his companies.
The boring company is nothing new, it’s just a backwards version of the tube system where everyone has their own car
I hate the narratives pushing Musk as him caring about the future, global warming and sustainability. The guy has publicly expressed his desdain for public forms of transportation, the only real and sustainable solution to the impact of transportation in the ecosystem. But its not only mere desdain, Musk has actively boicoted the development of railway systems in California and in other parts of the US and the world. He is not a green messiah, that is only a facade that does nothing but worsening the problem at hand by pushing a hyper capitalist view of the future that will lead to the decimation of the reaources of our planet.
You had me hooked within a minute! Even if it is just for the "Abide with me" ar the beginning...!
His ideology is easy to understand. It's: MEEEEEEEEE, meee, me, me, me, me and more meeeeeee.
That makes no sense.
if you were right he would quit and spend the rest of his life on a tropical island.
@@florianschneider3982 But if he retires he can't offer the world more his wonderful personality. His ego won't allow himto retire. So many twitter wars to win, so much crypto to lose, so many headlines to create. He needs to be the center of the Universe all the time.
@@joluoto Even if you were right, the things he does are beneficial to all of humanity. It doesn't really matter if he's doing it out of selfishness or not.
I'm not sure I agree that Tesla is about sustainable travel; it's just about selling cars. The very act of selling cars is contrary to sustainable travel, which should focus more on public transport and redesign of cities over individuals hulking around 2 tonnes of metal everywhere they go. And when you read about how the Boring Company was basically created to disrupt the construction of the California High Speed rail project because "public transport sucks". And when you consider that he's more focused on making rockets and electric cars and buying Twitter than actually investing in real, existing solutions to climate change - humanity's greatest threat - all whilst hoarding enormous wealth for himself, it's hard to believe he's interested in the long term of humanity more than his own life.
Would the not-a-flame-thrower be any good for searing steaks cooked sous-vide?
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Lately I’ve been thinking of buying cryptocurrency for retirement, I’ve set asides $350k to invest but along the line,I usually get cold feet, maybe because I have no idea what I’m doing, please I could really use some guidelines.
@@nicolavalle1524 In situations like this,I always recommend to people on getting guidance at least from someone that understands price action and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.
Investment guidance sounds like a great idea,thought about it before but never knew how to go about it.
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Wow…..Juan Antonio Landa?
Musk's ideology is simply 'get more for Musk...at all costs' (especially the future). Don't be fooled by what he says but watch what he does.
Don't lie. You have no idea about him and just echo what you heard in some news headlines.
Boring Company isn't introducing new ideas. It's simply taking existing ideas (underground metro system) and making them worse.
Problem of all the Ideologys, less is never a option.
You know it’s impossible to not have an ideology, right? If every ideology has the same problem, and every person follows an ideology, than there isn’t a problem to begin with.
This comparison of business leaders to religion is terrifying to me LMAO
The Boring Company is disrupting industry lol 😂
The boring company with it's Tesla filled underground single lane road is the dumbest thing that has ever existed.
Could've done a little bit better here guys. It isn't hard to find examples that contradict his philosophies as stated in this video. You could've made this analysis more objective without making it less neutral. Just a couple of things:
- He didn't found Tesla
- he's preaching free speech but at the same time tried to bribe a guy on twitter to stop posting his flight information
- he used the boring company to actually stop improvements to public transport in California
the boring company disrupting the... flamethrower industry...and that's about it.
For me Elon seems more and more like a huge Conman, that just managed to have some success by hiring capable people.
5:00 define disruptive, because again, Ford choosing to not build a car is definitely not the same as building the car from scratch.
I think Elon is a remarkable man, he's brave in many respects, with a few admirable qualities. I find people who worship him annoying, blind religious or political fervour isn't for me. Critics of Musk (see the comments below) also make valid points and keep me grounded about my opinion of him.
What's the title of the song in the video?
2:33 the way you worded it implies that Elon was working for “long termism” in all his companies. In fact he has only done actions RELATED to this idea after he was booted off of PayPal for his actions(they were not seen as “long termism”, in fact they were seen as detrimental to the company)(okay not detrimental, but enough to kick him off of the company)
He was the founder and owner of paypal, you can’t be kicked off from your own company, he just sold it to ebay and used the money to dedicate to other projects.
Did the other PayPal executives see Musk's plan for the company as being likely detrimental (or more precisely, overly-risky at a time when they felt that the company needed to reduce risk because the recession had struck and investment had dried up)? Yes. But I don't think that you can accuse those plans of being not focused on the long-term good of society.
Musk wanted to aggressively expand PayPal (which he asserted should by named "X", with "PayPal" just being the name for its payment services) into providing a full range of banking services. He believed that the company's innovations would give it a strong competitive advantage over established banks that would make it the biggest company in the world and more efficiently connect funding to innovators who could create something valuable for the world.
Elon occasionally has some good ideas, he wouldn't be so successful if he didn't. The problem is he has the biggest ego of any CEO in modern times to an almost cartoonish level, he think he's an expert on everything and sticks his nose in where it isn't wanted.
I'm not sure if elon has an ego at all.
Why do you think that?
@@florianschneider3982 The number of times he wades in on fields he has little knowledge and experience on, or confidently says his latest idea will revolutionise X or Y even when it's clearly flawed from the start. He also seems to relish in the power he has, playing games with corporations and stocks almost seemingly for his own amusement.
@@Croz89 Name one idea apart from the boring company (which is currently in its infancy) that is flawed.
He can answer highly complex questions about any of his companies.
This is something that is unusual for a CEO.
So your first sentence is a lie.
could you give me an example of where he relish his power?
@@florianschneider3982 Hyperloop, those solar roof tiles, and that silly submarine he proposed for the cave rescue to start. He's also been slapped on the wrist for manipulating his stock price over tweet where he didn't seem to be taking it at all seriously.
And we can't forget about what he said regarding Ukraine. I know, there's a million armchair generals and diplomats on Twitter, but when you're the richest person on earth, people listen to you, and you have to understand that before tweeting. Use an anonymous account if you want to play that role.
@@Croz89 1. hyperloop was his idea but he never intended to do anything with it. There are several companies around the world currently working on prototypes. I would wait a few more years before calling this a failure.
2. The solar roof tiles work and are money printers for the customers.
3. The submarine was silly but only because the cave would have been too narrow for it and tesla only had a few days.
4. He never manipulated any stock price.
He said something he's thinking about and the market reacted irrationally.
5. Of course he didn't take it seriously the whole situation was ridiculous.
Really wished you touched on his history of supporting Universal Basic Income.
Nowadays, he supports no wealth tax, so how exactly can we find UBI?
Almost as if he needs to lie to keep poor people on side.
@@n00dl3 I was expecting so much more from the TLDR team. I'm overall disappointed in the depth of this story.
Neither neuralink or the boring company are disruptive and musk's solar panel venture was a complete disaster. Tesla was certainly disruptive and spaceX but they cannot be compared to the other ventures.
You are sticking a fork in projects that are still on going. And y’all never learn lmao. If Tesla deliver on their goal to reduce cost per kWhr by a further 40% then the solar roof will be extremely competitive in the market
@@blaccpanther8715 cost effectiveness isn't where they are failing though. They're units are unreliable and dangerous.
@@zakmorgan9320 Actually you’re right, the solar tile was way more challenging than Musk anticipated.
Yes Elon is like a teenager. I had his ideology as a child, and outgrew it with perspective and empathy.
So aiming for the best possible future for all of humanity is a bad thing?
You can't tell me what to do, _mom!.._ I mean, the government!
@@florianschneider3982 for his wallet most, of time and the rest of the time for his public image. He often fails at the second part of that.
@@theSafetyCar Most of what he does makes him lose money.
If you were even remotely right he would quit tesla and spacex and spend the rest of his life on a tropical island.
Do you have reasons for your obviously wrong opinion or do you make it up spontaneously?
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Sorry but the transition organ music was a bit too heavy for me. I still love your videos though
Musk has said people should have more children (he has 10 children). Noting that the overpopulation that everyone thought would happen is not going to happen. The world population will peak at around 10 billion mid-century, and by the end of this century be the same as it is now. But he has also said the AI will put people out of work, and we will NEED UBI to support part of the population. I can not square the two viewpoints.
Q: Why should people have more children, if there are not going to be enough jobs to support them as adults?
Q: A smaller population would help the plant? Which will help humans long-term.
Clearly Elon is not a businessman
He is just a showman
Idk I always considered him the greatest marketer. He know how to spin bullshit into gold like a weird smellier princess from rumplestiltskin
It's so confusing to me why public transit advocates screech so much about the boring company. You could easily put 20 seat minibuses in those tunnels if you wanted to. The actual vehicle that goes into the tunnel and the business structure and capacity of passenger throughput is a detail thats just layered on top of a fundamental technological breakthrough. That breakthrough being: drilling tunnels really cheap and really fast. Missing the forest for the trees.
His ideology is twitter memes and no trains
What kind of music will Jeff Bezos get? I’m guessing it’s not church organ music.
And tobacco companies' mission is to make people relaxed. Stop the cap!
Can you do video billionaires of other countries as well
Could you please not play that music during transitions
A TECHNICAL PERSON JAVE AN IDEOLOGY? we are FUCK.
The section connectors are really bad and the song selection is the worst. It doesn't work with the rest of the video, aesthetically and continuity.
Speaking of disruptive… that organ music is very jarring and distracting. :(
Particularly when I usually have to turn up the sound to listen to the audio then BOOM clunky organ.
not enough of Elon criticism for me
Great video
I really disagree with this video. Elon Musk is an entrepreneur, a good one at that, a good showman... but he isn't someone who gives a damn about "long termism" or the climate. He isn't someone who sat long and hard and came up with solutions to solve humanities problems (except if colonizing Mars when we can't colonize Sahara, Siberia or the Australian Desert is a solution to overpopulation or food crisis). He is someone who took many gambles, fucked up people with rug pulls ( talking about Doge and all his crypto stunts). He is a person who is ruining a generation by build a cult of personality and lies (see how he lied about his life up until the rise of Tesla) on the backs of others.
IMO the ideology of Elon is he ideology of every narcissistic dictator of the 20th century - make my life good while ruining it for others and blaming the US government for their miserable lives.
Edit: He is also a credit stealer : He didn't do shit with PayPal nor his brother and he also isn't the founder of Tesla.
Yet somehow people follow him to build cars, rockets, brain computer interfaces, AI and consumers and governments funds his endeavors. He musk be an extremely competent dictator. 😅
To judge a person you must look at all thier actions, not what they say. Someone could say they support certain policies while funding politicians who lobby against those policies.
@@jefitoo he reinvented the tunnel,he builds very expensive cars that aren't that great compared to his competitors nowadays, his rockets don't mean shit since they don't help humanity solve it's problems,just waste valuable resources and his "breakthroughs"? in AI aren't seen, so I guess be is a master of camouflage.
Nothing worse than people acting out of ideology.
A person has two reasons for doing anything, the good reason and the real reason. What we all see here is the good reason. We don't know his real reason, only himself know it
ooooh, the comments section is gonna be spicy!
I think "cult" is a much better way to describe his fanbase
Hi guys, love your videos but I just can't cope with the audio any longer. Can you please have the general volume a bit louder? I can't raise my PC's beyond 100% and also, can you use some compression? (not file compression but audio compression) So that there's less crazy peaks between a shout and a whisper. Thanks
Mark my words: there will be schools named after Elon!
Of pathological psychology
The mission statement for Tesla is "To accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. "
That encompases much more than electric cars. Semi trucks, grid-scale batteries, selling electricity back to electric companies during high demand, etc.
Elon is an incredible genius when it comes to future technologies and starting companies to implement them. He gets into trouble when he talks about anything else. As a big Elon fan it drives me _nuts_ when he tweets some dumb-ass thing that gets him in trouble. Especially when he gets into politics. Pissing millions of people off unnecessarily does nothing to advance his aims.
Elon has (I think funny) sense of humor. I think you are misinterpreting some of this as showmanship.
Elon is trying to improve the future of humanity much more than trying to raise his personal profile. He literally sleeps on the floor of his car factories to make sure they are working correctly. When he's doing that he's not trying to raise his public profile.
Surprisingly good video (some people just _detest_ Elon and do nothing but spew criticism about him) right up to the end where you say he makes decisions about his public profile over making good business decisions.
"when he tweets some dumb-ass thing that gets him in trouble"
Because he is such an all-round genius.
"He literally sleeps on the floor of his car factories to make sure they are working correctly."
This sounds like a publicity stunt we'd have to take musk at his word for.
Musk's mirage of long-termism unfortunately happens to hide rather short-term focused benefits - to him personally.
It's beneficial to him to appear revolutionary, and to look like a genius. It's part of his brand. But even setting aside some of his questionable outbursts on twitter, his plans tend to lack substance; they're more suited to distraction, than achievement.
He's been promising self-driving tech for years. Cybertruck too is years behind first promises. He promised a revolution in underground transit, yet years after he first claimed to have breakthroughs just around the corner, he can barely build a tunnel and only at uncompetitive prices. His promises of a Mars base are both intrinsically worthless, and way behind schedule. He promised solar roofs, then paid himself with Tesla investor's money to bail out that failed venture.
Musks actions, as opposed to his words, seem aligned with somebody who shrewdly saw an opportunity to hitch his fortune to a real problem and make short-term gains for himself. Along the way, he's inspired many very clever people (and bought good ideas, like Tesla) - and they have indeed delivered some pretty awesome stuff. Awesome... but still fairly mundane stuff that other companies likely would have provided had Elon's hype machine left any oxygen in the room for them to grow. Elon wasn't the magic sauce here; plain old engineering diligence was. And he's certainly not delivered on the kind of grandiose plans he keeps on spouting.
Tesla's EVs are more sustainable than an ICE. But they're still very inefficient by relying on and requiring car infrastructure; it's hardly a very plausible solution world-wide, not just for sustainability reasons, but also simply of cost.
SpaceX makes good rockets - but at over an order of magnitude greater launch cost than Elon promised, and with over an order of magnitude slower reuse than promised. His satellite constellation might create orbital debris risks, and he's not going to be able to put a settlement on mars, not even at a decade behind schedule - and even if that aim were achievable, it wouldn't actually spread the risk to humanity from astronomic cataclysm as he claims.
Elon Musks _followers_ are longtermists, and I wish them all the success. But Elon is decidedly not; he looks much more like an overly rich conman that's leveraged incremental improvements into revolutionary stockprices with his unfounded hype.
I think the only thing Neuralink is disrupting is the wellbeing of dozens of monkeys
So he's basically the real life Tony Stark.
Except he did not invent anything, just purchased other peoples companies with his fathers emerald mine money. And then told his employees to invent stuff. Much of which is utter crap (like the Vegas loop).
@@Spacemongerr yes and he wants to put chips in people's brains. 😵💫
@@jacoboneill2494 Huh?
@@Spacemongerr neuralink
2:50 Ford literally sold electric vehicles before musk(now ford did discontinue it, but the fact is that does sold e-cars before musk, and before it was shut down it had delievered more cars as well)
If only actual politicians were more like that
I think Elon Musk is Elon Musk😏
Musk is too invested in libertarianism. He should stick to his last of engineering. Libertarians assume all people have all the information to make informed decisions and that people never want to harm others an unfortunate assumption made by many economists. People covetously control information and often are very selfish and hurtful. We wouldn't need any government if that wasn't so.
what's the purpose of this new video old information. Repackaged info.
There's a massive difference between what people claim to be and what they are. Case in point, he supports the republican party.
In typical liberterian fashion though, he only disregards authority above him, but is fine with having authority over others. True rightwinger, one might say.
Advocate of free speech - when it is about him... but less so when it is about employees in his factories... one rule for him and one for everyone else...
@@mityaboy4639 That's not what I've heard. I've heard that he strongly encourages anyone in the company (at any level) to speak up if they have an idea or see a problem. He doesn't like "yes-men" who just go along with things, and engineers are most in danger of being let go if they are not creative enough. Caveat: I have not actually worked at any of his companies, so it's second-hand info.
@@L4JP Look, he might have said that that. Truly he might. But so what? People lieall the time. I think it is more important to look at what other people say about that. I highly suggests this youtube channel that dives deeply in to Musk: th-cam.com/channels/gKWj1pn3_7hRSFIypunYog.html
I find him sketch. He over promises and under delivers. Then there is questionable crypto current dealings and buying his brother's solar panel company with company money.
What about this weird spread autism in the human population because I'm rich ideology?
Eh he's a cool dude😄😎
you should've mentioned how boring company has achieved so far in improving technologies in digging by how much...many people doesn't really know that cars in tunneling is one thing but how those minds work in boring companies have accelerated the digging capacity and their prediction goals is how many times of what's today possible.
Neat
The "service we'built with our creator friends.." line is..anoying.
Nebula making you do this is a serious misstep. Everyone in the world and their grandmother knows how long Nebula has been around, and they know you haven't "built it with your creator friends", you just joined it.
This is treating people as if they're idiots.
And that's, as I said, annoying.
That particular statement, about "creating a platform with friends" is repeated on so many channels, so many times that it's hard to think that the TLDR guys made it up.
It an anoying piece od Nebula marketing.
@@DigitalSpectator Yep. It's Nebula I'm anoyed with not the TLDR guys.
He is not as much a showman as a confidence man. He would do great in politics no doubt.
He's nothing but a scammer.
what exactly do you mean?
@@florianschneider3982 th-cam.com/video/c-FGwDDc-s8/w-d-xo.html