r/dankmemes • u/EnkelALB • Jan 08 '21

I am probably an intellectual or something Oh No! Anyway.

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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass Jan 08 '21

Musk has an extremely polar "fanbase" especially on reddit people either absolutely love him and don't care about any bad things he's done or they absolutely hate him and don't see the good things he's done.

But besides that, according to Forbes he's still behind Bezos.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21

I think he is like Julian Assange, a shitty, narcissistic person who has done good things

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u/The_Great_Pun_King Jan 08 '21

Ehm no, he hasn't done good things. He's done things that make him look good. Tesla was not founded by him, there's a lot of other electric cars already, he fucks over his own employees, even his assistants. I'm also not really a fan of him commercializing space travel.

There's more, Behind the Basterds had a good episode on him

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u/jmos_81 Jan 08 '21

Why not commercialize space travel? Besides that would come after getting to Mars anyway which is priority number 1 at spacex

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u/The_Great_Pun_King Jan 08 '21

Well that's what the company says is priority number 1, but since when do we trust companies on their word? I think the issue mostly is that space travel is mostly a scientific effort and not much beyond that (for now at least). Making space travel more accessible doesn't really solve any problems on Earth, it's only a "cool" and interesting endeavour. To me Musk could do much better things on Earth instead of finding ways to go off Earth

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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass Jan 08 '21

Musk himself once said pretty much what you said - altough there are many problems on earth which need fixing, many things that should be improved, space travel that is cheaper and reusable (so less emissions and less harm to the environment) is also something that improves life on Earth. Also imagine WW3 happened and we all nuked ourselves to death, by building an outpost on the moon and mars at least a small group would survive.

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u/jmos_81 Jan 08 '21

You really ought to investigate the NASA spin off technologies to see ways that space technology impacts our daily lives. Also if we wait to fix the problems on earth then we will never go. Also former and current employees have been interviewed have all said that a factor in their decisions is if this gets them to Mars faster.