Elon Musk Does Not Give a Damn

47 thoughts on “Elon Musk Does Not Give a Damn”

1. In a good month i invent several ideas and or concepts. They are practical and efficient. I give them away for free. Sent ideas to iss and can. space agency. Hasn’t gotten me anywhere. Still going to give them ideas though. I think the majority of them are brilliant. Up to them to decide though.

2. Shouldn’t be up to him. A decent person is a decent person no matter what. It shows in a person no matter what they do.

3. Sometimes you have to get out of the way of the truth.

4. Wow, love to have his weaknesses…

5. There was no securities fraud on the part of Musk.

6. Yep. Through all of history, we haven’t had a shortage of politicians, political systems, ideologies, religions and all sorts of superstitions.

   It was only after we started developing rationalism and empiricism, taking us eventually to science and technology than we got out of the abject depths of misery our species has lived on since it started existing, several hundreds of thousands years ago.

   This tiny oasis of relative abundance is a new thing in our existence, one our mistrustful ape brains haven’t got used to, so we still disbelief in the things that work and why superstition and all kinds of bunkum are still popular and gaining traction.

7. He is NOT one of the top 3 smartest people on the planet. Just STOP.
   He has NOT read more books than “probably anyone ever has”.
   He has NOT mastered all of the sub-disciplines unless manufacturing was one he accidentally missed because his alien dreadnought assembly line was matched by a tent.

   Your post reads like a puff piece of Kim Il-sung written by Kim Jong-un channeled by Mao’s and Stalin’s most deferential hagiographers. If anything your limitless praise reveals your own ignorance.

8. Not really, NASA needs SpaceX too. I’m sure a commission will make a report about SpaceX but nothing real is going to happen. NASA wants cheap access to space.

9. Why would he waste his time in politics? In the real world you can actually get things done.

   Mr Musk understands that engineering is what actually changes the world, not govt programs.

10. If this was reddit then we would all be less intelligent by 20 IQ points.

11. Yes but that doesn’t make him brilliant.

    He is simply willing to bet his money on his vision. Good for him. I wish that other billionaires would actually spend their money working to solve problems (Gates, Bloomberg, etc etc etc) instead of trying to suckle at the government teat.

    Musk’s execution skills and management abilities are his weaknesses.

12. Doubtful. When he was the underdog he had no end of popular support. It’s fashionable to cheer for the underdog. It’s also fashionable to take every shot possible at the successes.

    For example: Look at all the flak yesterday’s internet startups are getting now that they are big and successful (not going to get into what parts of it are deserved, but size and success alone are not good reasons for hate other than that larger things have more opportunities to do things that makes them a target for criticism and, once a target, always a target. We all know it; negativity sells, especially on the internet.

13. He doesn’t give a damn about Mexico and their claim to all things Tequila.

14. People would probably shut up over all this if Elon ever succeeded in a substantial short squeeze, but he hasn’t as of yet…

15. You’re not going to use that same pic of Musk over and over again every time you post a Musk-related story, are you?

16. He is brilliant, there isn’t a way to look at it that says he is not, he’s actually done something with his life and should be praised for it. Respect musk, he’s done a lot of good with his life. The world would be an amazing place if more people were like him.

17. Plus he works hard, when no one else does, ever

18. Nah he is South African, genius come with that

19. Losers and lesser folks respond to accomplishment with envy and sour grapes. You’ve given yourself away. But take some comfort,… no one gives a damn what a nobody like you thinks.

    By the way, the SEC is the wholly-owned enforcement arm of the Wall Street Criminal gang. Their job: to use state power to protect the Malefactors of Great Wealth’s monopoly on global money flows.

    Cryptos have obliterated that monopoly, and Wall Street is going down.

20. There is no Musk Kool-Aide.

    But there are now reusable rockets and a wildly successful line of battery electric vehicles.

21. No, fool, he is fighting the short sellers. If you understood what short sellers do and how they expect to make money, you would understand Musk has a fiduciary duty to all non-shorting stockholders to defeat the short sellers. That is true of short sellers who merely evaluate that the stock is overvalued, never mind those who actively lie to manipulate the value of the stock down.

22. I know, right? All these people should be shining his shoes.

23. I think someone’s jelly.

24. You mean like the fact that he is not natural born US citizen and thus could not be POTUS?

25. This is called short selling, and the number of shorted stocks sometimes exceeds the number issued. It’s a scandal

    No it isn’t. Just because you drink the Musk Kool-Aide doesn’t mean it is a ‘scandal’.

    They perform a necessary market function.

    A netter way to bet on a lower future stock price is to buy “put” contracts “to open” that confer the right to buy shares at a point in the future at a set price.

    Yes, that is what I do. I only trade options anyway.

26. If this was reddit, I’d have given you platinum for that comment.

27. I know just how he feels!

    Really? You love getting away with securities fraud then? I see.

28.  Elon Musk is fighting Short Sellers. Short sellers bet against the share price of Tesla.

    No he is not ‘fighting’ short sellers. Anyone who understands basic economics and what short sellers do would never say that. Short sellers are nothing but speculative traders, that’s it. They seek and target shares traded that they think are not valued as the market does and simply PUT THEIR OWN MONEY into trading positions that reflect that.

    He’s nuts, period. Just like Nicola Tesla & Howard Hughes went nuts as they got older.

29. This is the laziest “article” ever! You wrote two sentences that don’t give any insight into the subject matter and then typed out the lyrics to a song.

30. Well, your mummy lied.

31. As long as the public posturing doesn’t get in the way of delivering the goods, I’m fine.

    What I think is bad in general is idolizing. Lots of people start thinking that success comes from the posturing and being obnoxious to others, and not from planning then working and working like crazy.

32. He’s no more brilliant than anybody else.

    His wealth comes from ambition and the same sort of general intelligence most reasonably intelligent people have.

    His eccentricity is immature arrogance.

33. If you are purely commercial and majority shareholder in your ventures you can pretty much do what you want (that is legal) with impunity. But when you start taking big money from the gov’t then there are many in the gov’t that feel they have a say. SpaceX needs NASA money to be profitable (according to that Forbes article) so there will be fallout from over-the-top public stunts.

34. Pretty much. You don’t succeed like that by giving a damn what other people think. It’s a strength and a weakness, because you’ll get in real trouble if you hit a situation where you really do have to give a damn.

    But he is what he is, and what he is, is the sort of man the moment needed.

35. Yeah but he is the man, the guy is an expert generalist and much more than that, he probably one of smartest guys we have, he’s a physicist by literal profession in degree, an coding prodigy, has read more books than probably anyone ever has and understands things thoroughly and fundamentally. It takes a lot to actually understand the world via all its disciplines and sub disciplines and he has mastered being a homo sapien in the 21st century on planet Earth. He’s probably one of the top 3 smartest people we have on the planet, he throw’s out inventions, ideas and innovations like he’s reading of recipes from a cookbook. he probably know more about the ‘psychology’ behind most of the posts you write than you do Brian Wang.

36. You meet violent opposition from idiots and mediocre people. It is a fact of life.

37. Why does it matter? I am a day trader but there is too much risk in going short. Going long the most I can lose is what I Invested in the stock.(plus possible margin) Going long I could lose whatever the highest price the stock reaches being it $1,000 or $3,000 a share. On top of that when the price goes up to much, the short sellers panic thus driving the price higher.

38. Mat… He’s going to hot box mars using his flamethrower to light fiveleafclovers. Thats his ultimat goal.

39. I needed this. HAHA. I pretty much agree with it, yep. Is he carrying some weight? Heh, gotta hit the good ol’ image search.

40. Yet. LOL. I don’t think he’ll go into politics, though. He doesn’t like ceilings.

41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851BqHMCaeM
    You’re damn right.

42. Elon does not suffer fools gladly, and does not care what idiots believe. I know just how he feels!

    Who can blame him? When you are pushing the limits of existing technology, and doing things that have been widely declared impossible. What a bunch of small minded pencil pushers, and pretend journalists think is inconsequential. Personally, I wish he’d have fought the SEC on the grounds that his “taking the company private” tweet was not an official company communication, and protected by his first amendment right.

43. Generally, short sellers borrow shares from their brokers, and replace the borrowed shares at a later time, hoping the future price is lower. The corrupt practice of brokers loaning more shares than they have is now common. This is called short selling, and the number of shorted stocks sometimes exceeds the number issued. It’s a scandal.
    A netter way to bet on a lower future stock price is to buy “put” contracts “to open” that confer the right to buy shares at a point in the future at a set price.

44. Fortunately, he did not go into politics…

45. Brilliance is not concerned about those that toil in the shadows.

46. That’s the same look he’ll have, as you kneel before his “Ruddy Throne” and he contemplates whether or not to vent you and your family for bad mouthing His decision to rename Monday to Muskday.

    *on Mars

47. haha this is pretty true I think. When I saw some of his tweeting a while back, I really did hope he doesn’t give a damn really because for a bit he got salty or something

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