Sell the Tesla cars for scraps? At least the disillusioned owners would get something.

He’s a true man of reason and rationality. I respect Penn for that!

Normally, I see any news on government blocking social media for any stated reasons as typically a cover for censorship. But with how Facebook and other social media morphed into something else, I could not care less if they are blocked.

I am of different opinion that these folks know they are wrong, but are too egotistic to admit it.

I was taught at an early age to accept mistakes, learn from it and move on. Now I have grown older, I realised that not many people know this, and society also stigmatises someone making mistakes. I think some people refuse to admit to be wrong because either they are too egotistic to accept and learn, or doubling down assertively on the wrong belief as a defensive mechanism from potential public humiliation.

We can’t exactly stop shipping that is not pragmatic. That is like trying to stop air travel. What we can do is to promote alternatives where it is more practical and easier like converting to EV’s on the road, and using more renewable energy in power plants. Even if majority of CO2 consumption comes from shipping, a huge portion nevertheless comes from vehicles and electricity generation so switching to alternatives would have already made dramatic changes to reducing carbon emissions. Although, if shipping could sail on renewable energy (not that I am aware of), then that would be even better!

Autarky has been tried before and failed. Good luck growing coffee in China. Speaking of which, China is strangely the new champion of global free trade because they know they can’t produce and grow everything on their own; not because they make literally everything contrary to your statement.

We wanted cheaper products, and now we are reaping what we sow.

Globalisation is not bad, it is mismanaged. Why? There is no globally harmonised rules, policies and regulations to prevent exploitation of workers in third world countries to produce cheap products and services, compensate workers for their jobs being outsourced, prevent environmental degradation, and prevent over accumulation of wealth at the hands of miniscule amount of people. Norway can’t exactly tell Bangladesh they should pay the same wages that workers in Norway are getting.

How are those going to be resolved? A world government that implements rules and regulations uniformly; instead of dealing with different standards, regulations and policies of other countries-- or lack thereof in case of third world countries (which is why we have cheap goods because these countries offered themselves to be the world’s factory).

The world government is like the EU but on the world level. It should be able to address the unequal distribution of wealth, unequal division of labour and enviromental issues that the current lawless globalisation “order” has wreaked havoc both to humans and environment. Are you down for that kind of set up? I thought so.

Chinese EVs are cheaper, unfortunately, so they are competitive.

Fucking hell, the fight against globalization truly was for nothing, people these days are even defending it against their best interests…

Globalisation is not bad, it is mismanaged.

You are not wrong. Elon Musk is the PR man for the companies he either founded or have a majority of shares in. However, his companies’s products and services are not actually superior to his competitors. Take Tesla, the cars are not road-worthy, they are expensive, the battery sets on fire more often, and uses inferior image-detecting camera when driving automatically. Meanwhile, Chinese competitors are cheaper, more safe and use better LIDAR technology for automated driving (but only because the Chinese government heavily subsidise in EV companies making their cars far superior).

So, as someone already mentioned, hype up your company and convince anyone to buy shares, then your companies’s valuations increase tremendously. It creates the illusion that your company is productive and valuable when in reality it is not.

Yup, nobody listened to Franklin Roosevelt. People are wondering why people voted for Trump. Duh! If you deprive people of economic opportunities, they elect demagogues!

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

• Franklin Roosevelt

Take it from the man who saw the rise of totalitarianism!

There are always background threats. It is politics after all.

As an existentialist, I say we are all secretly miserable. Nothing will ever satisfy us. It is part of life.

But a side effect of ketamine-- which Musk is addicted on-- is also depression. So yeah, in general Musk is genuinely miserable. Perhaps already miserable even before taking on ketamine.

Out of curiosity, where do you live? If you live in a conservative state, that explains a lot about the scoffing and the dismissal of the unfamiliar and new by your peers.

Anyway, screw the haters. They are the ones who will regret missing out on those privileged pay from paternity leave.

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I have been around when the bean meme came and I still don’t know how that meme started.

We’d like to think that it is part of the plan, but it is reported that Musk is pissed at the tanking stocks. And if he isn’t rightfully pissed, Trump would not have tried to convince people to buy Tesla.

I think there is no plan, but merely opportunity. You know what people say, don’t let a crisis go to waste. It is a rule of thumb for businesses and investors. The stocks go down, just buy thr dip.

Hitler also got roughly the same third of votes…

We can see how we can benefit from it, once most of the value it produces no longer ends in the owner class’es pocket.

Yup, indeed. Remember when social media was celebrated as what enabled bottom up revolution in the Middle East ¹ ? Well, a lot of people forgot about that, since big brained profiteers realised they can commercial people’s personal data and sell them to entities that will weaponise the innate dark insecurities of the people to influence public policies.

¹ I am aware that the Arab Spring largely failed, but so did the Revolutions of 1848. In spite of failures, I believe that the ideas have been planted and will be nurtured for future generations to reap. Even though the liberal revolutions failed in Europe, the liberal values they tried to champion are now in place in Europe. I believe the same will happen in the Middle East but it will take generations to materialise.

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Say what you will about Will Smith, but his movie iRobot made a good point about this 17 years ago.

(damn I’m old)

I agree with Frrchazz and if it works, it works.

She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

I am going on tangent and say that her seminal and widely praised book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil” is one of the most boring books I have ever read. I was expecting a more philosophical discussion and more focused about Eichmann, but it turned out to be more like an objective journalism, or even a bureaucratic administrative report that would make you sleep. So many jargons and names it is hard to keep up. The little bureaucratic details unfortunately bores me. I had to skip to the end where it finally talked about banality of evil. I appreciate that the book gave insight into the logistics and intricacies of the Holocaust, but sorry if I want to read a history book, I would buy one. I was expecting a more abstract and philosophical discussion about the nature of evil.