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Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Uugghh! Every time I hear him speak, I am reminded of just how stupid he is. He thinks like a 12 year old.
Not one mention of how robots that do all the work for us, is going to solve the problem of how people are supposed to be able to afford to live, when no one has a job anymore.
Are you volunteering to pay for everyone's UBI, Elon? No? That's what I thought.
He is not a smart man. He maintains a facade of supreme intelligence, somehow, and continually tricks people into believing it. If anything, it's more a reflection on the American people than anything else, and that's incredibly disappointing to type out.
I just don’t think this is the case. He’s an incredibly smart man but his intelligence lies in assembling talent and raising investment to allow said talent to create the vision. He’s basically in the same vein of Steve Jobs. Our media driven culture likes figureheads so he gets all the credit and has started to believe his own hype. Bill Burr the comedian has a great bit about their function.
Musk is a horrendous man but clearly very autistic and desperate for a validation that money and success can’t provide. There’s something very tragic about him. The bitterness and resentment that sits at the base of his ego, frustrated at not being popular or ‘cool’ despite his success and money drives a LOT of his bad decisions. It’s all an attempt to control.
tesla/spaceX have literal teams whose only job it is to keep this moron from driving the company into the ground.
he's an idiot.
Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he's the one that owns the workplace due to having money
The irony here is that truly is the most efficient system for the guy holding the money, and so yes capitalism truly is the most effecient system...for capitalistic gains.
His talent is getting money to fund things by lying and exaggerating which doesn't require intelligence. That is a learned skill, frequently learned by kids of the wealthy like Musk and is generally successful long term when their early lies paid off and investors are betting on the person continuing to lie in a way that makes them money.
there are also people who make their living by following rich people to get them to fund projects. I read about construction companies that would follow Trump around and have people slip him ideas so he felt he was this amazing business man. All the politicians are following this method.
You know that people do this with Elon and any other rich person. Stroke the king's ego by pretenting it was all their idea and get rich off of it.
You're confusing intelligence with cunning.
He is cunning to a tee.
"Hey let's livestream me playing Path of Exile after saying I'm the best in the world, with uncensored live chat from thousands of pseudanonymous gamers with actual experience."
He's good at creating the illusion that he's a genius on a subject for the duration of an informal conversation. Steering away from topics he doesn't understand, forging signals of deep understanding by mimicking the speech patterns of an expert who struggles to put things in lay man's terms while namedropping memorized keywords, etc.
If you look at Path of Exile and the Cybertruck, it's clear that Elon doesn't know when his promises are unrealistic in a way that will make him look like an idiot. I think he has handlers, not just at SpaceX but everywhere, and those handlers are the real talent. Those handlers know how to cultivate experts that are actually good at their jobs to quietly do the work that Elon takes credit for and how to coach them to make Elon feel good about this arrangement most of the time.
I would have thought cunning is a form of intelligence? Using strategy and planning to apply knowledge? I’m intrigued, will have a look. Cheers. I just think people are desperate to pretend Musk is stupid because he’s turned out to be a nasty piece of work. They want to strip him of his intelligence as a way of getting back at him. I can’t take people seriously who think he’s stupid. Tesla and Space X. Come on.
He’s a Nazi who will get what Nazis get
I know this is common knowledge on Lemmy, but damn it's still nice to read. When I talk to folks around town, they all think he's a genius... it's really jarring.
The article is useless because it provides no sources, and only links back to itself. But yes, basically he says UBI "will be necessary", as if the world's first trillionaire would ever support such a thing.
Dude. It's the USA. Those people will simply starve then. Problem solves itself. Like magic, but without work!
This is an insult to twelve year olds. Seriously. I was never as stupid as this guy at 12. I would have STARTED with how to deal with the people displaced, not omitted it entirely.
That is a fair point. I apologize to 12 year olds everywhere. That was an unkind comparison.
Also WHY would we want robots to do the work for us ? The problem is generally the working conditions, not the mere fact people have to do it.