Elon Musk’s story is classic. In America, even immigrants can make it big with enough help from the government. Now, Musk is merely trying to repay the favor by helping the government. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Orwell’s 1984 is a remarkable book for many reasons, including the author’s acute understanding of the political psychosis of our times – about which he wrote a long time ago (in 1948).
We can see what he wrote about all those years ago in today’s lunatic veneration-hate for Elon Musk by both the left and the right.
Four years ago, the right despised Musk as the arch-grifter of the Green Grift. It regarded his Teslas as even worse than Priuses – which were once the standard object of vehicular derision. And they were right – about Musk being the arch-grifter of our time. He became a mega-billionaire via the “carbon credits” grift that bankrolled Tesla via funds extorted from what are derisively styled “legacy” car companies, meaning those that made vehicles rather than devices. The latter were – and are – styled “zero emissions” while vehicles are held to “emit” things that are bad – specifically, carbon dioxide. Which is like saying oxygen is bad. But in any case, vehicles “emit” this “carbon” and it must be “offset” – in order to avoid punishment from the government – and buying “credits” from Tesla are the way this penance is paid.
Tesla – and so, Musk – also cashed in on stock market valuation predicated on government creating a “market” for devices by (effectively) out-regulating vehicles, thus leaving no alternative to devices.
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