I don’t doubt that we actually need electric cars, the important question is just whether that’s all we need or whether we need other transformations (radically fewer cars and less space for cars in cities, for example).
This second goal is something Elon has actively worked against, for example with his Hyperloop bullshit.
This is such a terrible mindset.
So we're going to allow the rich to do whatever damage they want to the environment, personally, if they construct widgets that are slightly less harmful than the next best widget?
It's this sort of hypocrisy that prevents people from buying in to the environmental movement: celebrities lecturing the rest of us while they don't alter their lifestyle one iota. The proletariat will never accept it.
He probably could be this or that potentially
> What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy.
Turns out, you should care about both. First of all, his private jet costs as much as a yacht, plus he doesn't own a yacht just because he rents them...
> While Musk famously owns a $70 million private jet, he hasn't sprung for a yacht of his own (unlike his space rival, Jeff Bezos). Instead, the group chartered a vessel — called Zeus which rents for over $7,000 a day.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-yacht-photos-greec...
EUR 750k to 2mil per week is the sort of pricing I see for charter.
In comparison, Bezos' yacht is 127 meters long.
"If you buy your own boat you will only be happy twice in your life. On the day you buy it and then on the day you sell it."
And renting a yacht for $7k is actually super cheap. I know people who spend more on champagne in a club in a single evening, and no, they are not billionaires.
Even if this yacht was rented 365 days a year, which I do not believe, this would be $2.5M / year.
Even if this absolutely worst case (I don't believe for a second that Elon is partying on the yacht for large part of the year) you could still rent it for literally hundreds of years and still not match the cost of just buying your own large yacht. Forget about insurance, maintenance and staffing costs.
If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.
> If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.
Also :-)))
We're not talking poor here. We're talking "makes more money in 1 month than the richest lawyer you know" rich.
First, I am not your dude.
Second, please, read the comment before you respond. I addressed it.
$70M is a drop in the ocean when you are in tens of billions of dollars especially when it is your work tool that lets you move fast between locations and save couple of hours on each trip.
Maybe you are?
Is it insulting?
> stop thinking like a poor person.
The last boat I rented charged $200 for a 2 hour session and had a capacity of 12 plus you had to drive it yourself, so his would be a definite step up, but it's pretty modest for a billionaire.
What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy.