I’m no Peter Thiel fan, but I love his critique of DOGE:
> I had a conversation with Elon a few weeks ago about this. He said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years. And I said: Well, if that’s true, you don’t need to worry about the budget deficits because we’re going to have so much growth, the growth will take care of this.
His life mission is control, Mars was just a means to an end. He’s not going to get to Mars, and he very publicly destroyed any political capital he had on Earth.
Like Thiel, just another power hungry tech bro wrapping themselves in the idea of progress and humanity for PR. Define “progress” and for whom.
I wonder if in 2040 after 100 Gigafactories are built, large majority of power planets are green and rely on batteries, and ICE vehicles contribute only to tiny fraction of all pollution, there will still be people saying "it was just for money, meh".
turnsout|8 months ago
> I had a conversation with Elon a few weeks ago about this. He said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years. And I said: Well, if that’s true, you don’t need to worry about the budget deficits because we’re going to have so much growth, the growth will take care of this.
IshKebab|8 months ago
toomuchtodo|8 months ago
Like Thiel, just another power hungry tech bro wrapping themselves in the idea of progress and humanity for PR. Define “progress” and for whom.
https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-says-elon-musk-doesnt-unders...
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-spacex-mars-la...
brokensegue|8 months ago
ulfw|8 months ago
Everything else is just propaganda
da-x|8 months ago