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
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
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/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