This is sketchy fiduciary duty. Right up there when he bailed out his brother's SolarCity by having Tesla buy it because every car manufacture needs to get into the rooftop solar business.
That's why it's been so important to him to keep his boards stocked with friends and family--an actual corporate board of directors would have sent him to the curb long ago.
I didn't hear of any cave in, and googling results in nothing. Care to explain what you're talking about?
Presumably everything else is on track, but when it comes to geotechnical engineering, stabilizing earth is challenging, and the engineers appear to want to wait more than 3 or 4 days after the cave-in to see if their method of stabilization (whether they used these neat ground screws, thicker walls, or a pairing) is stable and ready for non-employees to be near.
Why is there a cult following when fraud and employee abuse is common?
All in all, Musk's companies have an above-average incidence of ethics- and truth-related issues.
Musk can present an image of a successful multiple entrepreneur who is working towards a vision that many support arrayed against a forces of Big Bad Incumbents who would rather squash him than compete fairly. Thus he is responsible for all the good things, and the bad things are just smear campaigns that should be ignored.
Essentially, it's the same force that fuels the rise of people like Trump, just applied to a different part of the political spectrum.
From cameos in movies and tv shows to projects like SpaceX that were created solely to boost his "genius" image, Musk (or his publicists) have done everything to make him seem like a superhuman.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/16/elon-musks-boring-co-raise...
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737630/000173763018...
See also https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
What do they think The Boring Company is really for? And Tesla, and Solar City for that matter.
Perhaps if they aren’t smart enough to connect the dots they aren’t smart enough to be investing in high risk private companies.
Uh huh. Sure it is. That would explain why Solar City has thus far failed to account for the significantly reduced amount of solar energy that reaches Mars. Solar cells can't charge EVs fast enough on Earth. With the same panel area, it would take most of a Martian year to charge a single EV on Mars.
But as with the hyperloop, Musk has done a great job of getting people to fall for his half-assed fantasies. Somehow though, whenever you actually try to look into his ideas with more scrutiny, they always fall apart like a house of cards.
What are you talking about? Solar can charge an electric car just fine. Take desired charge rate in kW, divide by nameplate power output of panel, and that's how many panels you need. If you live somewhere with constraints on solar input (eg reduction due to clouds, distance from sun, or night) then you can increase the panel amount, maybe add some stationary batteries to timeshift the input.
Edit: not meant as a personal attack at all, but noticed your other comments around the thread are loose enough with the facts. Musk could learn a thing or two :)
If they are investing one companies resources they expect equity or payment, regardless of if the tunnels are useful for Mars.
