Current Events > Elon Musk admits Hyperloop goal was to fuck over high speed rail plans in CA

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Smashingpmkns
08/10/22 1:43:40 PM
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https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

He has a history of floating false solutions to the drawbacks of our over-reliance on cars that stifle efforts to give people other options. The Boring Company was supposed to solve traffic, not be the Las Vegas amusement ride it is now. As Ive written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in Californiaeven though he had no plans to build it.
Several years ago, Musk said that public transit was a pain in the ass where you were surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers, to justify his opposition. But the futures sold to us by Musk and many others in Silicon Valley didnt just suit their personal preferences. They were designed to meet business needs, and were the cause of just as many problems as they claimed to solveif not more.

This dude fucking sucks

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RchHomieQuanChi
08/10/22 1:44:59 PM
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So do we regret letting billionaires be the God-Kings of our society or nah?

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A_Good_Boy
08/10/22 1:45:00 PM
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I'm starting to think this Musk dude is a piece of shit.

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Agent_Stroud
08/10/22 1:46:48 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/8/AAR6WtAADibO.jpg

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CADE_FOSTER
08/10/22 1:47:27 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
So do we regret letting billionaires be the God-Kings of our society or nah?

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emblem-man
08/10/22 1:48:42 PM
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https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990?t=hNs681u4IaB7O10GRvbaTg&s=19

Well, that's fucked up


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CM_Ponch
08/10/22 1:50:33 PM
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So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?

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Lebronwon
08/10/22 1:51:58 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?

A modern day Robert Moses.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/cars/elon-musk-robert-moses/index.html

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TendoDRM
08/10/22 1:53:39 PM
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Fuck Musk.

I don't understand why billionaires like him would be against public transportation anyway. From his perspective, more of us dirty commons using public transportation would mean less traffic on the road when he's being driven around in his limo.

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pinky0926
08/10/22 1:55:10 PM
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Ever see those before/afters of cities that got rid of its railway lines and descended into suburban ghetto hell?

Racism/classism by design

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MrAndersonWb
08/10/22 1:55:22 PM
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Musk is a bloody psychopath
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Umbreon
08/10/22 1:55:43 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?


No no.

He's also willing to let millions suffer for profit.

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legendary_zell
08/10/22 1:57:03 PM
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Letting random individuals selfish and sociopathic enough to soak up billions control that much of society's resources is bad imo.

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CruelBuffalo
08/10/22 1:57:51 PM
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A hyper loop and better tunneling systems is a good idea. Too bad Elon was using it to promote shitty teslas instead of more efficient public transit
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Antifar
08/10/22 1:57:58 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?

TendoDRM posted...
I don't understand why billionaires like him would be against public transportation anyway.
He runs a car company, and opposes public transit for the reasons those companies always have.

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pinky0926
08/10/22 2:00:19 PM
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legendary_zell posted...
Letting random individuals selfish and sociopathic enough to soak up billions control that much of society's resources is bad imo.

Letting any single person hold that level of power and influence is insane. I don't care if the person is a saint either or if they pledge to donate all their wealth to sick children or whatever. We should not be held to the whims of eccentric oligarchs.

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Halo478
08/10/22 2:00:48 PM
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Hope they sue his ass and tax him to hell

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Cocytus
08/10/22 2:01:37 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
So do we regret letting billionaires be the God-Kings of our society or nah?
Was there ever really anything we could have done to stop it...?
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AngelsNAirwav3s
08/10/22 2:01:38 PM
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Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?

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pinky0926
08/10/22 2:02:11 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?

here we go

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Halo478
08/10/22 2:02:55 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
here we go
dont feed the chuds people

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Smashingpmkns
08/10/22 2:04:21 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?
Same could be said about Elizabeth Holmes and she's possibly facing 20 years

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Umbreon
08/10/22 2:04:51 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?

Is it a snake oil salseman's fault if people believed oil can cure grandpa's cancer?

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MrAndersonWb
08/10/22 2:05:56 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?

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wiiking96
08/10/22 2:06:46 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?
I'm fairly certain that more people thought it was stupid than thought it was a good idea.

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WingsOfGood
08/10/22 2:06:49 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
I'm starting to think this Musk dude is a piece of shit.

Anyone with a billion has dirty hands and does this shit
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emblem-man
08/10/22 2:07:08 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
Is it Musk's fault that people are so stupid they believed a 380 mile vacuum tube would actually work for transportation?


If his intent was to do trick people to reduce the chances of improved public transportation....yes, I blame Musk.

I do tend to judge people based on their intent, actions, and words. That's just me though

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Slaya4
08/10/22 2:26:22 PM
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Fucking duh.

Most of his ideas are dumb af if you sit down and think about it for more than a minute. Musketeers eat up and gargle his ideas like they are the best things ever made since the invention of the calculator. Which is weird because I'd assume most of his fans are techbros that should know his ideas are dumb af.

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Axiom
08/10/22 2:29:32 PM
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Musk is a smarmy conman so it's nice that he probably won't be able to wiggle out of buying Twitter. He never had any intention of buying it and now he has no choice. Lol
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Pogo_Marimo
08/10/22 2:33:03 PM
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Elon Musk is not a tech genius. He's a brand, just like Donald Trump. Sci-Fi Fantasies are the foundation of his brand.


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Jabodie
08/10/22 2:36:04 PM
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CM_Ponch posted...
So he was willing to let millions suffer just because he didn't like public transportation?
The Californians that would benefit are probably his target customers, right? At least the ones that could afford EVs.

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AngelsNAirwav3s
08/10/22 5:55:38 PM
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Aren't they planning a hyperloop underneath this thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vgbF4aH6k

Yeah, that will totally work!

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sauceje
08/10/22 6:00:53 PM
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Could Muskywusky please just go away already

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CADE_FOSTER
08/10/22 6:09:31 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

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Unsuprised_Pika
08/10/22 6:12:48 PM
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Admitting this should unironically get him life in prison.

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Zero_Destroyer
08/10/22 6:13:35 PM
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Remember that people on this board defended Musk's big techbro projects even though they were lambasted by engineers and 90% of his pie-in-the-sky projects are just shitty trains

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modena
08/10/22 6:16:06 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

They also turned down desalination plant ideas because "It would cost too much". Now look at them, it would cost a hell of a lot more to do it now.

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Krojen
08/10/22 6:37:44 PM
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The other car brands already lobbied to kill high speed rail. They are the reason the US doesn't have public transit. Is there nothing Musk won't wrongly take credit for?

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Naysaspace
08/10/22 6:41:02 PM
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Doiy im a memelord doiyyyyyy. I have a lot of money, pedoman, so i can solve world hunger doiyyyyyy

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Questionmarktarius
08/10/22 6:41:33 PM
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Google did a great mass transit system that time, then everyone complained.
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Robot2600
08/10/22 6:43:59 PM
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TendoDRM posted...
Fuck Musk.

I don't understand why billionaires like him would be against public transportation anyway. From his perspective, more of us dirty commons using public transportation would mean less traffic on the road when he's being driven around in his limo.

he sells cars. if ppl have good public transit they will want more invested in it.

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Antifar
08/10/22 6:49:12 PM
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Tell him that; he's the one who said his efforts on that front were about diverting legislative efforts away from rail.

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What_
08/10/22 6:57:42 PM
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Kick him out of America
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ViewtifulGrave
08/10/22 7:01:10 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
Ever see those before/afters of cities that got rid of its railway lines and descended into suburban ghetto hell?

Racism/classism by design
???

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COVxy
08/10/22 7:01:33 PM
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Robot2600
08/10/22 7:03:32 PM
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do you really find it so hard to believe that the world's richest man would bribe people with MONEY, his only superpower, in order to make more money?

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