Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing - ThreadSky

niedermeyer.online • 91 days ago

Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing

Reposted from Sam

kinda funny that all it took to defeat traffic in the most crowded city in the country was only a simple $9 congestion relief zone

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rogieres.bsky.social•91 days ago

Traffic is a force of nature operating completely independent from human-made infrastructure. I guess I'll have to file this under "I did not know that".

jefffal.com•91 days ago

It’s even just market forces at work. Should be obvious to business geniuses.

whyaduck.bsky.social•91 days ago

Or what happens with people who didn’t realize what a hack writer Ayn Rand was.

objectiveunlocked.bsky.social•91 days ago

I don't know who said it, but...

"You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."

mockgod.bsky.social•90 days ago

Trains

Also, see Peter Principle, Dunning-Kruger

fizzvstheworld.bsky.social•91 days ago

...you can just say South Africa...

foxfire50.bsky.social•90 days ago

Just shows he is all talk and no action.

sam-scott.bsky.social•91 days ago

His buddy getting mad Oppenheimer wouldn't inspire kids to be physicists makes a lot more sense now.

delbertgseasons.bsky.social•91 days ago

Tech FTW yet again

cityatlas.bsky.social•91 days ago

There are tens of thousands of Musks, and our top universities produce them by hundreds more every year! It's abundance

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-pay-any-amount-to-not-pay-my-taxes

fridayharbor.bsky.social•90 days ago

Our civilization adoptef the wrong measures of success... money

ptexpat.bsky.social•91 days ago

My god you’ve just described everything that’s wrong with everything so succinctly

numb.comfortab.ly•91 days ago

This asshole killed high speed train project to tout his "Hyperloop" which was a total fiasco.

flintheartglomgold.bsky.social•91 days ago

Fortunately, reports of California High Speed Rail's death have been greatly exaggerated - they just started the railhead project to build the temporary tracks which will receive the track laying machines and OCS materials.

tripsnek.com•91 days ago

Worse than that. He touted "hyperloop" (which he already knew to be vaporware) in order to kill high speed rail to help *Tesla* (by keeping CA car dependent).

anitramwaju.malauren.be•91 days ago

You got it in reverse. He hyped his never to be realised hyperloop project to kill the high speed train project.

margaretmorgan.bsky.social•91 days ago

So ignorant. Musk just demonstrates his lack of knowledge.

I don't think he's ever lived anywhere with good mass transit infrastructure, not just the sort of travel system "poor people" take.

I'd suggest he come to Europe to look, but we really, really don't want him here.

a-ehrlich.bsky.social•90 days ago

I studied logistics, Elon. It was all about reducing traffic—but not exactly rocket science!

romabysen.bsky.social•91 days ago

Wait. Does he think every city on earth has terrible, unsolved traffic problems??

qs-not.bsky.social•91 days ago

No its just that hes the most powerful person in the world but hes an idiot that cant wrap his head around solutions to the problem. So you see his statement is actually true

cityatlas.bsky.social•91 days ago

"Can't wrap his head around..." a solution that involves a social contract

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

fripperskitter.bsky.social•91 days ago

elon debate donald shoup challenge

briceinkling138.bsky.social•91 days ago

There are times technology has screwed up on us from time to time. And Elon, the dumbass he is, is always the one to stir shit up.

tshandy.bsky.social•91 days ago

And has a tax system that allows billionaires to exist.

buckrawheat.bsky.social•91 days ago

Mild inconvenience can defeat anything as far as human behavior is concerned.

gojira1000.bsky.social•91 days ago

So much this

wingofbenu.bsky.social•91 days ago

also a society where rich idiots think that if they cant solve it it must be unsolveable

gwchilly.bsky.social•91 days ago

Re:

https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3lfrxqo2d522x

finalpassion.bsky.social•91 days ago

yanky.bsky.social•91 days ago

it's WILD how empty the city has been
i for one did not expect it to work so well so fast, but i'm here for it! 😁

flexipro.bsky.social•91 days ago

The guy that hates transit and insists cars in a tunnel is a solution is worries about congestion? They are called buses and trains, they beat congestion Elon. You melon.

drshabbatnik.bsky.social•90 days ago

(pronounced "mee-lon" to rhyme with Elon)

karhey.bsky.social•91 days ago

Behavioral scientists have known this for years. It's just a matter of finding the tipping point.

ftwlynn.bsky.social•91 days ago

Fact !

themjl.bsky.social•91 days ago

The true irony is this: Modern Technology *is* "Collective Action".

Dump Elmo on a desert island, alone, with no supplies, and he instantly becomes just like anybody else.

eosine911.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yet they oppose funding public transportation. High speed bullet trains would be nice in many areas.

mbdangerboy.bsky.social•91 days ago

The Vegas Tesla Tunnel is exemplary of the future we can expect from Muskovites. Expensive exclusive service. Autopia in hell.

righteoushazard.bsky.social•91 days ago

You never go 50% Star Trek

wpschlitz.bsky.social•91 days ago

stephenrys.bsky.social•91 days ago

Passing an unpopular law isn’t “collective action” regardless of its success.

wingofbenu.bsky.social•91 days ago

"unpopular"

I hate to tell you this but Long Island suburbanites dont speak for the rest of new York

tonyjoyce.bsky.social•91 days ago

Proves tax the rich works.

jimswift.bsky.social•91 days ago

He might actually be defeating traffic... to https://X.com

connecticutting.bsky.social•91 days ago

Is this one of those instances where Silicon Valley keeps inventing public transportation

rainydayboater.bsky.social•91 days ago

Ah the simple bike. Turns out the boss battle wasn’t that hard at all.

nocturnamine.bsky.social•91 days ago

musk would not be where he is today if not for greed and the influence of money. His opinions aren't any better than some guy off the street but he's listened to because of his money.

neilnotes.bsky.social•86 days ago

He likes big, novel, capital-intensive engineering solutions, when simple ones work better. He offered $100M to anyone who found a way to pull CO2 directly from the atmosphere & sequester it durably and sustainably. User Ken Tremendous answered “This is a tree. This is what trees do.”

scohoe.bsky.social•91 days ago

and one where being born rich is all that really counts towards future success.

theangelremiel.bsky.social•91 days ago

God, that post is the least meaningful collection of words ever. Shoots for profundity and can be instantly be defeated by "of course they can, don't be an idiot".