He seems like kind of a dick

  • @xe8
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    43 years ago

    I know about S-curves, economies of scope and scale, JIT production, etc. I’ve read Stiglitz, Fukuyama, and the rest of it. I was also fed the same neoliberal propaganda about unions, and how great individual contracts are.

    Ok, so let’s say we’re all in some distant future driving electric vehicles with no emissions.

    That’s still not addressing mass deforestation, overfishing, pollution, and the myriad of other destructive practices that capitalism encourages.

    And it’s not addressing why everyone need a car in the first place to rush to jobs, most of which are useless, destructive, or could be automated if we weren’t all required to do wage work in order to pay rent and survive.

    Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world and what’s he doing to create actual change? Nothing.

    • @Openmastering
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      13 years ago

      Well, it would mean, that other big companies didn’t spend an awful lot of time in optimizing processes. I don’t believe that Ford or Toyota would say: oh, we have good sales, let’s not optimize the process and earn more. Why would an S-curve work for Tesla and not for any other company?