This is why Musk is one of the most valuable people to mankind
 

The fact he is a billionaire and is putting his money on the line to advance mankind makes him one of the most valuable people on this planet. It's pretty inspiring to see someone with so much, putting it on the line because he's a dreamer.

Others might have more money than him, but money alone doesn't change the world. Just think if some of these other greedy fucks out there did even a tenth of what Musk is doing, how much better this world could be or how much further we would have advanced as a species.

i agree that he is valuable, but disagree wuth the assumption that people who di not put THEIR money on the line are necessary greedy. Keeping your money is rather normal, than greedy.

I was thinking along the same lines...if there 100 Elon Musks, just imagine where we'd be at this point.

he probably considers it as a reinvestment...

his money? you moron. he cant exist without obama handouts. his companies dont produce a dime in profit, & close tomorrow if trump wants them to.

get a clue. :1orglaugh

sadly theres a million like you instead, blocking bridges & murdering cops, cause your "oppressed" or something.

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?There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars ? compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.? - Elon Musk

On hiring: "[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart." - Elon Musk

It's inspiring that people like him keep pushing forward and producing results that a benefit is all.

On government licensing: ?We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.?- Elon Musk. :1orglaugh

The man is a visionary :2 cents:
He is destined for greatness or maybe a real big FAIL.
But he gets out there and tries hard -- all respect :2 cents:

here's a nice link showing how dumb the OP is.

what an ignoramus.

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Yup, huge crony capitalist. I thought he was cool too, but then realized he's just a smart dude sucking off the government tit (or in other words, my money.)

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Just look at what he was fucking and made babies with

If you look at everything he's doing, Telsa, the Solar & battery companies it's all very obvious he's using those as a es bed for his ultimate Mars goal.

The whole electric vehicle thing and the battery banks for home use are clearly what it's looking at for power needs on Mars. Not to mention the whole "tunnels" on Earth thing he keeps floating. My bet is he intends to have temporary surface habitats on Mars but make actual long term living space under ground.

Electric cars = boring

If I had his kind of money I would be doing the same.... Seriously, how much money does one person need? Buy a few houses, buy a few cars, travel around the world.... Elon would still have billions left over.

Well let me ask you if Elon Musk is doing any of the following

1) Bringing clean adequate sanitation to impoverished nations?
2) Helping to spread literacy?
3) Helping to end war?
4) Investing in research and development to get all the plastic out of our oceans?
5) Ending hunger or tackling obesity in the United States?

Not trying to troll here but from what I see of this man is nothing more than a bloated self absorbed ego. He's researching technologies that will destroy the jobs of millions and wasting resources to try and go to a dead planet to look at rocks.

Sex robots = the future

Its his money. He is advancing us in areas of his interest. Think about all those things and then think about what it will mean the moment humans are living on 2 planets.

The moment we have a growing self sufficient colony on a second planet, it means we have doubled our chances of never going extint.

Once we can settle Mars then it's going to be one of Jupiter's moons or maybe even 2. This is worth more to our existence as a species than anything on your list.

So you don't know about The Musk Foundation, or even Google Elon Musk philanthropy, before posting, got it :thumbsup :1orglaugh

You have not driven a Tesla.

You are missing the point. This world will end at some point. The timeline is huge but it will end. So he is trying to extend the timeline of mankind past that point. Pretty cool in this perspective.

I'm not one of those people...and I know the difference between "your" and "you're" you fucking imbecile.

It's bizarre that he thinks everyone here is a far left loon extreme. He's on autopilot, that's why I block him. Constantly telling him you're not one of those people, and him not adapting, is exhausting.

Like any further proof is necessary.

Fuck humans and fuck you.

Our species is a mistake that nature will correct soon.

We will just be one more of countless species who have come and gone on this planet. :thumbsup

Hopefully mankind is wiped out before then. Could you imagine a Trump supporter making it off planet, They breed like rats

Mankind would be like those aliens in the movie Independence Day! A plague of locusts. We can't take care of this planet, we don't deserve another

Feel free to remove your self at any point.. :thumbsup

Going to disagree with you because from where I'm standing he's basically sweet bugger all except give geeks something to jerk off to while inflating his back account and buying public relations with the pennies he throws in his "foundation."

Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian have a lot in common in my opinino.

No! Electric cars = fun! (Try one, you'll like it).

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If its ok with you, some of us want to save it. We'd appreciate your help if you can.


Maybe you should google the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, The Solutions Project, etc. Oh and also check out the donation he made to build a solar power system near Fukishima, etc.

Oh man...

Kind of like people repeatedly saying various things to you and you continuing to ignore them. Got your own medicine in that regard :1orglaugh

Elon is the real-life iron man

He also made all Tesla patents free for use by competitors... what an asshole.

And maybe you should investigate people like Mother Teresa, Sharad Dixit and even Marie Ens. But if humanitarians aren't your cup of tea then I suggest Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Individually qll of these people have done more to help others and change this world than a hundred men like Elon Musk ever will.

As for Elon Musk's "foundations" and these "organizations" he owns or is involved in. As far as I'm concerned he's just paying for advertising while networking his fellow millionaires.

Mark I get you and you're certainly an intelligent and thoughtful man. Therefore I'll submit this to you for your consideration.

We've had more war in the last 100 years than in all of combined human history.
Today our nations are surveillance states rapidly becoming police states. Our cities are filled with crime, racism and injustice while the people have become marginally literate and highly unskilled. Today's youth are a generation of Icon sliders on tactile screens and social morons that avoid leaving their homes. Technological progress doesn't create stability, it tends to creates the opposite. Absurd amounts of money and power are increasingly being concentrated into the hands of a shrinking few; it's fascism from a smiling oligarchy worshiped as celebrities.

This is not the evolution of mankind but its de-evolution and we have men like Elon Musk to thank for it.

Man will be extinct or close to it long before we are exploring the Stars. We cannot sustain the growth we currently at. There is an 80% probability that world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100. Forget about feeding those people unless rain falls increase dramatically. At the moment fertile land is turning to deserts.

As for jobs, forget about that. Machines will do them.

The difficulties faced with building a vehicle that can carry people across Space, keep them alive, return them and us being able to pay for it. Are immense. Putting someone in a coma-like state for the time it takes to travel 40,208,000,000,000 km or 4.2 light years are immense. Especially if they're weightless.

We are at the point of building dugout boats and crossing the Atlantic in them.

Musk and especially people like Gates would do more good by giving free birth control pills to the billions still on Earth.

Sorry to bring you dreamers back to the real world.

To what purpose? Nothing was found on the Moon that was worth us going back. Nothing has been found on Mars to make living there worth anything.

The nearest maybe, possible, could be, planet with an Earth-like atmosphere is 4 light years away.

As for mining these planets or Asteroids for precious metals. Think of the problems getting megatons of whatever back to Earth. Then figure in the price drop in the commodity.

This is it, we have the Earth, there's no escape. Fix it or lose it.

Absolutely!

And instead of spending millions on driverless cars they would do more good paying to put in adequate plumbing in Africa. People need toilets more than they need a self-driving car.

You know what??? That gives me an idea! Whenever I see a driverless Uber car I'm going go and take a shit in it.

I started a college fund for my 2 year old daughter, but I should probably be teaching her useful skills -- like spear fighting and scavenging.

But she's a robot:error


Talulah Riley (host of Westworld)

I don't need to drive it. Anything that is soundless means zero emotions, zero fun... I want to hear my car.

So.. no thanks. :321GFY

Paul Markham the Debbie Downer of GFY.. Never a positive thing to say, always telling everyone how bad everything is..

First time doing business?

My mainstream business partner bought & took over a big sports complex here about a year ago. The small city where it's technically located gave him 2 years of no sales tax (just the city) & the county gave him a small break. He didn't get it by sucking anyone's dick - it's just something many local, small towns do to get businesses to locate + hire employees in the area. They compete just like the private sector.

If you read the article, he pretty much got kickbacks from various states for opening up shop there. Every state does this - every big city does this - every smart business owner seeks it out.

Reason is Libertarian trash anyway, but it's interesting that they don't understand that the government is also a big player in a market economy. If you don't know how to operate a business in the real world, that's ok - others do. :winkwink:

JoushaMo lives in his grandmother's basement, he's just a bad troll whom has forgotten why he even trolls.

I didn't even know that bit of trivia very cool thanks :thumbsup

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worth $60 million + $200 million satellite going down the toilet :2 cents:

good job ! :thumbsup

i guess you missed my point. OP said elon put up his own money. thats only half the story. the other half is government cash, piling up to 5 billion on the taxpayer dime. my point still stands, despite your attempted takedown on an irrelevent side issue.

but of course you just HAD to tear down the source. im sure you prefer your cool aid huffpost flavored.

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Joshua G is on government disability and does no business, seriously, his opinions about business mean nothing :2 cents:

Elon Musk announced a new line of batteries for homes, businesses and utilities... Where's yours?

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