Does anyone know why Elon is playing the good cop now?
One can only guess, but clearly there are three problems for Elon.
1- fewer consumers of Teslas
2- Fewer slaves to build Teslas
3- Insufficient growth in sales to pay off his unbelievably deep well of debt
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It's ostensibly true they want to replace gas engines with electric ones because it's easier to shut off the electricity than to cut off the gas. If you start discontinuing gas production some people will get wise to what's going on and take evasive action, but when you turn off the lights everything goes dark in an instant. So to channel Evergrande and Hemingway, you will not go bankrupt in 2 stages-first gradually then all at once-but only all at once. And with Evergrande slow as mollasses.
But I think it's more likely he wants to appear to be nice so he can insert a chip into your brain while you are caught off guard.
He's Asperger's, so has a hard time not saying what he's thinking; such as us being cyborgs without knowing it, always online, more guarded but pointed remarks about covid, and simply stating the obvious on reproduction being necessary to a species survival.
I don't think it's the same as the Henry Ford business model for the masses, the cars are too expensive. It seems he sells dreams to investors and green solutions for govts needing to meet targets more than anything. Rides on a SpaceX rocket ship is a niche market. It remains to be seen how many people will still be driving in the future, I don't think it's going to be anywhere near as many as now. Tesla will probably be well placed to supply company managers and uber drivers.
Musk know what attracts attention. He is a showman. 'More humans' is controversial, an utterance that is pure Musk.
Relavant to the Neuralink Tower of Babel he is all in on with Bill:
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