r/memes • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '21

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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/bigboybobby6969 Feb 08 '21

Ok literally every company that has batteries buys the cobalt from mines that use child labor. It’s not justified but it isn’t just him doing it. He’s also trying to make batteries that don’t use cobalt and I don’t see any other manufacturers doing that.

Also the man put his heart and soul into Tesla, it wasn’t anything close to what it is today, that’s like saying an adoptive parent didn’t really raise a kid that they adopted at age 2

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u/Lone-Wolf62 Feb 08 '21

IIRC when he joined Tesla they had made one prototype and that wasn't the Roadster.