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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If Trump cancels EV subsidies or pressures NASA to stop bankrolling SpaceX, Musk is basically fucked.

That is why Trump said that.

As with most giant corporations, if the government stopped heavily subsidizing them in many direct and many more indirect ways, they would basically collapse under their own incompetence quite quickly.

Its truly funny to watch libertarian types pretend they built their empires from the ground up, when the truth is that they basically always started from a very privileged background, more or less did shady things bordering on or actually being fraud, got some of their parent's or parent's friends to invest, and then grew further from massive government aid of one kind or another.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The family were rich: a punt on an emerald mine by Errol Musk, an engineer, had delivered a fortune. But he and Maye, a model from Canada, left raising Elon and his younger siblings, Tosca and Kimbal, to black servants.

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/musks-bleak-childhood-in-south-africa-and-drive-to-succeed-l75b0lqkl

Musk worked really hard to kill the emerald mine part of that story and hoped everyone ignored the fact that he didn't challenge the servants part.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

God fucking damnit, he is so brazenly corrupt he just fucking actually said it out loud!

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-electric-vehicles-elon-musk-endorsement-2024-8

You already commented on it but just... fuck.