The problem is that there are too many veto points. It’s easy to add new ones, very hard to remove them. There is no attempt at an ROI justification at any step, so “value of one person’s enjoyment of plovers” is held alongside millions of dollars of wages paid into a community.
I don’t want to bulldoze the wilderness, I know about the burning rivers, EPA is good on net, but I think we need to chop the worst 10% of planning/environmental regulations.
Could we could just say "My-way-or-the-highway people are jerks"?
I don't see a need to link that to people with Asperger's. Some of them have an extra challenge in some situations already, without negative prejudices adding to that.
It hurts feelings to sincerely ask if such people should have massive influence in ver humanity?
Tough. Look at Elon being a snowflake who needs a safe space while trashing everyone else. In his case at least he’s earned being mocked.
Which doesn't mean the environmental groups are wrong, or that Elon is getting shitcanned for nothing… he really inflicted this on himself.
[¹] I have no idea how to dig up data on this, unfortunately.
In you pisoff enough people, someone will eventually succeed
Coastal birds can be very fragile to disturbance and are already threatened by lack of habitat. They often have limited energy levels and regular disruption will cause them to take flight and expend that energy. This can have an effect on mortality. Not sure if this is the case at Boca Chica, but I can understand why people are worried.
Whatever you say, there is something unique about Musk that nobody else has been able to replicate.
Musk is able to convince or bully others into giving him investment money - including goverment. That is real contribution for sure. Just not an engineering.
Then we could talk about NASA's SLS... (Branson isn't even worth discussing at this point)
Both organizations have the money and the engineers and scientists, only those working for Musk have a landing rocket. Clearly there's something special about Musk.
> In 1990, he entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.[37][38] Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), where he completed studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School.[39][40][41][42] Although Musk claims he earned the degrees in 1995, UPenn maintains it awarded them in 1997.[43]
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/
A court ruled in Musk's favor about this. Do you want to challenge that? Then bring more than empty claims about some donations, pls. He didn't even have the money back then - he co-founded Zip2 in 1996 and sold in 1999. Perhaps you meant the 2009 donation, but he had the degrees long enough by then ;-)
But the one thing he actually does understand is engineering. He's not a grifter pretending to be an engineer, he's an engineer who thinks he knows everything (he doesn't). Link below contains statements by other engineers on their experience working with him:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
This is just a separate area where musks companies do not care about collateral damage.
It’s perhaps a cautionary tale about addiction and having one’s mind warped by social media. I really think he got his brain sucked out by Twitter.
I view it the same way, but in the opposite direction. Musk has arguably done more for the environment than anyone else alive, but his social media faux pas and the responding social media cult-like hate has made him a persona non grata to those who claim they hold the environment "sacred".
Social media drama is apparently more important than the environment to many on the left.
I've been calling social media companies the tobacco companies of the mind for a long time. It's an addictive vehicle for poison.