All his companies are scams that make him money.
Every R&D dollar he takes away from actual electric car research to make speciality impractical products with horrible consumer reports reliability ratings, ridiculous gull wing doors, and prices over $100,000 per vehicle is another dollar that doesn't go to Chevy to make more Bolts or Hyundai to make more Ioniqs or any other real car company with real dealerships to sell to real middle class people rather than a luxury toy company that competes with Ferrari. Put simply, the Model S has 470 fucking horsepower. It could get 4 times the mileage and not be so fucking wasteful and ridiculous if they actually wanted it to be a green car. But they don't. They sell just as many as Ferrari does at similar prices. That's who they want to emulate. It just sucks that my middle class tax dollars have to go to a billionaire who's already filthy rich to build ultra-luxury sports cars for people who can spend a hundred thousand dollars on a vehicle, while Ford and Toyota don't get nearly as much government money to just make an electric Fusion or Camry for the masses. Tesla is also the only 100% non-union car company in America (maybe the world?), and treats and pays its employees horribly
Solar City is nothing but a finance/lease scheme...it's more Wall Street than solar. Anyone can go to a local contractor/solar installer and get real, quality labor by master electricians and/or IBEW members. They will install high-quality, American or Canadian or German made panels on your house and take care of your roof and update your electrical and cut down trees that shade the roof as needed, and look at your whole house for efficiency. Solar City doesn't give a fuck. They slap the cheapest Chinese panels possible on any roof, even if it's flat rubber and it ends up leaking, they never remove trees or update electrical, because they don't hire master electricians, then the worse part is they don't let the homeowner own the panels most times, so they own them just for a day, long enough to claim the tax credit, then sell them off piecemeal in solar bonds and derivatives to suckers who invest. The company is nearly bankrupt now, and Musk says he will buy it with Tesla, which is the only thing keeping it alive. But what car company also has a rooftop solar company attached to it?
Every dollar he takes away from NASA trying to re-invent the wheel with unmanned spaceflights to extreme-low-earth-orbit in a vehicle with the highest mission failure rates on the market is a dollar that might have been spent actually doing real space research or science rather than enriching a billionaire playboy philanderer on his 3rd marriage at 40. Meanwhile, at least ULA doesn't have their shit explode all the time
Then there's all the sketchy tax deals that lead to nowhere and nothing and vaporware. Musk gets millions out of Buffalo and New York for a solar factory, but he's not going forward and he just gave the property to Panasonic. Musk gets millions out of Nevada for a gigfactory that will never be finished or come online. Musk announces a hypertube that's a fucking joke and ignores the costs of land, viaducts and bridges--uses it to help kill the California high speed rail project. Still no viable working prototype years later. Musk announces a Mars Mission in 3 years, has nearly 20% mission failure rate with unmanned rockets, and never even tested a manned mission once. Musk announces Model S at $45,000, ends up starting at $71,000. Musk announces Model 3 as Model E 8 years ago, takes millions in pre-orders, still no car.
SpaceX rocket blows up destroying a 250M payload , engineers to this day don't know what happened , Musk calls for 2 worldwide PR events in less than a month presenting deadlines for Mars colonization and beyond
Buying Solar City , Musk is saving his heavily exposed cousin , also he would personally make profits for millions of dollars
Musk infiltrates in every media content that is even remotely related to space , transportation or future , tweets more frequently than many actors and musicians whose career depends on cult following and , even when tweeting he never forgets to inform his people of the next big PR event where he would step on stage like he's Axl Rose or some other rockstar from the 80s ready to take on the crowd full of screaming cult members who probably envy those working for him
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Also Global warming wasn't that big of a concern for him when :
After all this now he comes pontificating on how we should reduce emissions and government should heavily tax his competitors and give him subsides , also he and other hypocrites like Leonardo di Caprio , Bill Gates and Al Gore are the absolute scum , heading to climate talks in private jets and pushing for 2 C policy which would cost millions of human lives in developing countries which heavily rely on coal to power their already weak infrastructure
Other valid reasons are that he clearly pays reddit for advertising , never publicly thanks his engineers who works long hours at low pay...also he's in the press every week and stole the Simulation Argument form Dr. Nick Bostrom of the Future of Humanity Institute , I'm sure there's more
It's all a bunch of bullshit , hype and PR that takes away from real companies doing real work without all the glamour of pretending they're Tony fucking Stark.
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