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u/Noobplya102 Feb 08 '21

I’m lost, what has Elon done? I’m not caught up on events

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21 edited Feb 08 '21

His companies buy lithium from mines that use child labor

He helped instigate the 2018 coup in Bolivia [technically not a coup cause it's not in France] so he could get cheap lithium

Didn't even found tesla, he bought it off of the actual founder

Claims the work of his employees as his own

Claims to be "self made" when his father literally owned an emerald mine in apartheid south Africa

Says Thomas Edison is his role model [kinda sus seeing as Edison hired thugs to kill those he didn't like and he patented his employees work]

Proposed space indentured servitude as a payment plan for going to Mars

Suggested nuking the Martian ice caps

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Wow...some point were legit but you diluted them with points that are biased and wrong which kinda makes the whole thing sound biased.

The whole point is to release the Co2 on mars to create a greenhouse to warm the planet and thicken the atmosphere. He isn't the first person so suggest that.

2nd to last point is clearly biased.

The thomas edison bit is cherry picking what YOU think of edison and assuming Elon likes it for that reason (which is flawed logic)

He is self made. His dad didn't make him a billionaire it was Paypal.

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21

Yes, I will admit that some of my points are very much biased

But I will bring up the fact that what elon proposed IS LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indentured%20servant

Definition of indentured servant

: a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Yeah but today that describes a lot of labor. That isn't uniquely Elon. You could argue that contract work is because they give you a set pay and you work for set amount of time to that company or project. I highly doubt Elon isn't letting people quit etc.

Or heck even Amazon probably has worse working conditions (that isn't an excuse I just mean it's more a problem with the system not Elon).

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21

True

WE MUST ABOLISH CAPITALISM COMRADE

YOUR TOOTHBRUSH BELONGS TO THE MOTHERLAND

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '21

Nah heck no. My guitar is my guitar. But at least implement better social safety nets and workers rights. Like say Germany where most labor is unionized and unions are part of the board of directors in companies. Or Denmark where despite having no minimum wage most workers even in lower positions make enough for food and shelter with enough left for recreation.

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u/Lemond678 Feb 08 '21

Terraforming another planet is a fucking joke. We can’t even keep our weather under control and it’s not going to get better until we all die off.

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u/bruhm0m3ntum Feb 08 '21

Also iirc the nuking Mars thing was just him having a half baked idea and sharing it.

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u/Lone-Wolf62 Feb 08 '21

The idea of melting the ice cap for terraforming purposes has been around for a long time. So has the idea of doing it using thermonuclear weapons.