aight so some of you seem to still like crawling into Elons ass, so here maybe some useful links https://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/comments/h0xuan/lol/ftp6uib?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Fuck Elon Musk.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960
After saying that the coronavirus pandemic wasn't even "in the top 100" health concerns, Musk said that ventilators were not needed and there would not be a shortage. When it became obvious to all of the public that we'd need more ventilators at hospitals, car manufacturers were being asked to shift production and make more ventilators. Under public pressure, and as we starter running out of ventilators (so already too late to help the first wave), he promised to start making some. Then, instead of making ventilators, he went on the open market and outbid someone to buy some machines. By March 24 he told the public and the gov of California he had already delivered 1200 ventilators to the state, prompting the governor to thank him publicly. https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-ventilators-coronavirus-covid19-california-governor-gavin-newsom-1493914 Several weeks later, neither the California gov nor the media could find any of these donations. By mid April, as the media tried to track these donations, they only found hospitals that said that the machines they received from Musk were not ventilators useful for the fight against covid19, but instead they received much cheaper and less useful biPAP or CPAC machines that typically cost 20+ times less than a ventilator. https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-ventilators-coronavirus-covid19-california-hospitals-list-gavin-newsom-1498491 As far as I can tell, Tesla never made a single ventilator. And Musk never delivered a single actual ventilator (neither bought nor made) to any hospital. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/hychbc/long_sourced_list_of_elon_musks_criminal_illegal/fzcfvlw/
In one case, Musk promised to "fix" Puerto Rico's power grid after it was decimated by Hurricane Maria. http://inthesetimes.com/article/20601/elon-musk-puerto-rico-privatization-utility-climate-solar-rossello
Friendly reminder that Elon Musk told the UN that if they gave him a budgeted breakdown of how $6Bil could end world hunger, he would do it. They gave him the budget and then he decided not to do it, and instead decided he would buy Twitter for $45Bil. https://twitter.com/CaptAmazo/status/1518588084459384832
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elon-musk-donations-republicans_us_5b4e4bd8e4b0b15aba897481
Employees at Tesla suffer twice as many serious workplace injuries than the industry average. http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-injuries-rates-higher-industry-average-worksafe-2017-5
Crushes unionization attempts at tesla factories, promising free frozen yogurt in return.
Musk fires Tesla worker for testing positive for THC, then goes on the Joe Rogan show and smokes weed himself.
In reality the worker was fired for her union organizing and supporting the United Autoworkers Union. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/405711-ex-tesla-employee-fired-for-failing-drug-test-musk-smoking-like-a-slap-in
Uses public money to fund private ventures, costing taxpayers $4.9B. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/05/09/elon-musk-tesla-crony/84169496/
Forced to pay out ~$4 Million in a class action lawsuit to 4,100 SpaceX employees who say the company refused to allow them to take legally mandated breaks during the workday, as a consequence of how the company structured its shift patterns.
Wants to privatize space travel, leaving colonization and exploration to to the richest few. https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/
Despite rumours of Musk being a self-made mad scientist genius, he was born into a wealthy white South African family, and his father owns an emerald mine . His wealth comes not from scientific discovery or innovation, but from his father funding his first business ventures, and from buying and selling companies such as PayPal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2
Fired his assistant of 12 years for asking for a raise. Divorced his wife after telling her that his life "operated quite smoothly" in her absence.
Also, hang on, can we talk about that [apartheid South Africa] emerald mine? “We were very wealthy,” says Errol [Musk]. “We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.” With one person holding the money in place, another other would slam the door. “And then there'd still be all these notes sticking out and we'd sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.”
he’s also a habitual liar. https://elonmusk.today/
Don't forget he abused his first wife. That's always left out of these conversations. https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/
he said “pedo guy” is a very common South African term we throw around in a friendly if deprecating way. Just because I’ve lived here my entire life and have never heard it used, and no one else I know who has lived here their entire lives has heard, or used, it either doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t saying it. Maybe I just live in a more “ma se poes” kind of province.
Every good idea he's been involved in has been a preexisting idea being executed by an independent company that he then bought. (Tesla, SpaceX)
All of his own ideas have been failures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/udrqls/i_will_die_on_this_hill/i6ippcw/