Elon Musk
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The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies
The billionaire simply can't stop making shit up
TO HIS MANY fans, Elon Musk is the future. Whether that future means self-driving cars, brain chip implants, an “everything app,” a colonized Mars, or all of the above, they believe in the billionaire’s ambitions — and, crucially, his ability to bring them to fruition.
But why? Musk has an uneven track record as both innovator and entrepreneur. If he maintains a reputation for high-tech triumph, it’s in part because he’s been a relentless self-promoter, announcing new projects at such a clip that headlines can never quite catch up with the failed and abandoned ideas left in his wake. By appearing restless, driven, always in pursuit of the next big thing, he adds to the impression that he’s accomplished plenty already.
Along the way, he’s exaggerated, overpromised, skirted facts, and lied. A lot. There are lies to save face, misrepresentations to gain an advantage, and, perhaps most of all, bluster about when a scientific breakthrough will become a reality. There are also lies about stuff that doesn’t matter. (Like, at all.) Here we present a comprehensive but by no means exhaustive list of Musk’s habitual hucksterism, hyperbole, evasions, and outright fabrications.
- He should run as Trump Vice President.utopian
- Our future is being built by idiotsPhanLo
- Give your heads a shake, why cares about these small details (like, at all)? he's human, humans do dumb things...prophetone
- as long as he keeps tossing money, resources at different technologies then so be it, some fail, some will help unlock the next advancement, that's how it worksprophetone
- I could care less about the rest of it b/c it's all fleeting, and what appears to be 'exaggerated, overpromised' today might pan out in the future, more quicklyprophetone
- and possibly not by this guy... but that should be a good thing overall for the future of humankind... even if it's learning from mistakesprophetone
- America's future never looked brighter.utopian
- if u have below low moral standards and say lies to boost your product and ego.. not such a small thing... pathway to madness too...neverscared
- when the moment comes and your habit of talking crap is spinning out of control u are signing your cash into the deSantis campaign or pay 4x overpriceneverscared
- ohh that happened already...neverscared
- Agree with Prophetone here. Throw enough shit at the wall and some will stick. At least he's doing stuff, trying, pushing the limits, pissing off governments...microkorg
- Imagine any other future thinkers of great minds (not saying Elon is one :P) of history had billions at their disposal and were running huge companies...microkorg
- ..they'd be just as questionable. haha.microkorg
- Elon reminds me more of Evangelical wanks, I think that's why he's been successful in the US because it's part of the culture to be fleeced by clownsPhanLo
- Tx microkorg, this is all it is, this is what’s important, so what if he said this or that, even messed up, if even 25% of efforts make a long term differenceprophetone
- Then great... but the other 75% is valuable as well because someone has now at least attempted it... but him being a big doofus is icing to scrapeprophetone
- He is not the guy imo... the next guy is the guy... then the next guy is the guy... each one pushing it a bit furtherprophetone
- ...until we finally get a real hoverboard, and other stuff tooprophetone
- How people can take him seriously after that tunnel shit is beyond me.PhanLo