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"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
bruh
"Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home."
I made a video version of my article about Greenland, with help from a former Prospect intern www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKD1...
interesting thread
"I have no idea whether Musk is an engineering genius, or just a savvy and lucky venture capitalist. The scientific world is divided on that question. I do know that he is a monstrous human being." www.ft.com/content/77af...
"The Musk bet seems to be that he can make himself an essential enough part of the world’s global economic infrastructure by the time that the crash happens that it won’t matter. A lot of things will have to go right for this to be true." www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-would...
Wall Street people will straight up say this. oh Elon has lied literally hundreds of times about what Teslas will be able to do for 15 years, you ask? well,
"we’re stuck in this groundhog day tragicomedy because Trump acted on impulse in a vast act of executive self-soothing, and now he is unable to move forward because ... that requires facing the consequences of his own actions, which he is entirely unable to accept."
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
