Elon Musk

There is one point that springs to the top of my mind when people ask me why I don't like Elon Musk.

From The UN tells Elon Musk how his money could end world hunger:

• The Tesla founder has offered to pay to end world hunger if the UN explains how it would spend his money.

• Responding to the challenge, the UN's World Food Programme has produced a detailed plan to stave off global famine.
• The UN’s $6.6 billion proposal could help 42 million vulnerable people survive 2022.

In other words, Musk could end world hunger, lied about it, and didn't.

Musk is well known for his use of bullshit.

In recent times, he's told advertisers to go fuck themselves and not advertise, while also saying those anti-advertisers will likely lead to the fall of Twitter^[1]. There's also the fact that one of his companies owns half of the satellites that help the American government, which makes North American officials cow-tow to his mercurial self^[2].

There's also this Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode^[3] from 2023-12-18 to consider:

Let's see if we can find reasons for why Musk shouldn't talk about morals nor about ethics, until he's in detail apologised for his past behaviour; let's use some shownotes from Behind the Bastards, who made a two-part podcast thing about Musk:

1. Tesla Labor Practices and Musk Tweet Broke the Law, Judge Rules
2. The Trump administration reportedly spent months trying to make sure unauthorized immigrants couldn’t go to school
3. Elon Musk, His Rocket, and the Grand Scheme that Tore Apart Boca Chica
4. Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
5. “I Was a Starter Wife”: Inside America’s Messiest Divorce
6. A teenage Elon Musk once casually sold his father’s emeralds to Tiffany & Co. while his dad was sleeping
7. Elon Musk’s family owns an emerald mine in Zambia — here’s the fascinating story of how they came to own it
8. A Brief History of How Your Privacy Was Stolen
9. The Evolution of Elon Musk: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
10. Tesla workers speak out: ‘Anything pro-union is shut down really fast’
11. Unpacking Elon Musk’s daylong Twitter rant on unions and US history
12. Genuine question: Did Elon Musk’s family profit from South African apartheid?
13. Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
14. Elon Musk Accused Of Pushing, Verbally Abusing Senior Tesla Employee
15. Court documents show Elon Musk privately called himself a ‘f—ing idiot’ after attack on British diver
16. Tesla Protest
17. Tesla Worker Group Calls For Elon Musk’s Arrest, Safety Inspection Before Reopening
18. Tesla Factory Has Dozens of Environmental Violations