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Elon Musk can be a lot of things depending on who you ask. For some, he's a genius, a real-life Tony Stark who's going to take us to Mars after revolutionizing the electric car market. For others, he is a well-born smoke dealer who does not stop talking nonsense on Twitter and who is not really the founder of Tesla , the company that has made him known and admired.
Regardless of what you think of him, it's a fact that the past few weeks have been amazing if you're one of his many Twitter followers . He has been the father of a boy named 'X Æ A-12' with his partner Grimes, a peculiar pop singer. He has also admitted that the share prices of Tesla, his electric car company, are too high, so that these plummeted shortly afterwards, making many investors lose money.
This should not matter much to him, since he has personally pocketed more than 700 million as a bonus while he has cut wages to his employees due to the economic situation resulting from the closure of factories . All this diametrically collides with the messages that he has released on Twitter about how he is going to get rid of all his material possessions, including one of his mansions. All because the material distracts him from his goals, he says.
One of those goals should be that its employees end up infected with COVID-19 , since it has put a lot of pressure for Tesla factories in California to reopen, which it has done despite going against the law and, at the same time , threatening to move his production to Texas or Nevada if he didn't do what he wanted. "I will be on the front line with everyone. If someone has to be arrested, I ask that it be just me," he says.
Nothing seems to happen to him because he has significant support, that of the President of the United States, Donald Trump , who despite being the one who signs the laws, has no problem doing like Musk and launching messages on Twitter against the quarantine and the closure of companies for the safety of their workers: "California should let Tesla and Elon Musk open the plant, NOW. It can be done quickly and safely," to which Musk responded with "Thank you!"
Musk and Trump's relationship must be very close. If they were normal people, they would surely be exchanging direct messages on Twitter on a daily basis, but as they are very important figures in the US economic panorama, for very different reasons; what they do is send tweets with similar messages. "FREE AMERICA NOW," Musk commented on his Twitter account not long before all this and forgetting that America is a continent that encompasses more than just the United States.
Musk leans on questionable data to assume that it is safe to open car factories , where thousands of employees gather who, as previously reported, do not work in the best possible conditions. Many Tesla workers have been injured at their assembly line positions and have sued the company for it.
Logical that, with allies like Trump, Musk does not think about how dangerous a message released by Twitter can be. In the past, they have already given him a big fight when he joked about removing Tesla from the stock once the shares reached $ 420, which was basically a pun on the day of the porretas, April 20 , or 4/20 for the American calendar. Its investors took it more seriously, because the stock plummeted . When he repeated a joke saying that Tesla's shares were too expensive, no one was surprised: the company's stock value suffered again, but quickly grew again, beating the previous figure.
This attitude may surprise you coming from someone who has just become a parent. Far from settling his head and acting in a more mature way, Musk has dedicated himself to boasting and explaining facts about his son along with Grimes, his girlfriend and the mother of the creature .
On the one hand, there is the name, X Æ A-12 . According to the mother, it is due to four obscure references to things that parents like: the unknown variable (X); the way in which Artificial Intelligence would be written in Elvish (Æ); and the forerunner of the SR-17 (A-12) aircraft. But of course, according to the father, the latter is poorly written, because the plane in question is the SR-71, something that Musk had no problem publicly correcting on Twitter his recently-born girlfriend .
That someone confuse the model of the plane on which the name of his son is based passes even in the best families and Grimes, who responded to his partner also on Twitter, did not seem to give special importance to the matter.
This obsession with Twitter of one of the key men in the new electric car industry is sometimes more mundane. Like most reputable tweeters, Musk also uploads photos and images to his social media account to brag about status, and it doesn't matter if the image is stolen and the author is not quoted.
All this concatenation of absurd events around Musk has made many of his followers become fervent defenders of anything his favorite guru does , something that the opposite side that seeks to ridicule at all costs has taken advantage of to make memes or bring up Musk's deepest shame.
For example, that he is not so much a self-made man as he is the son of a good family that exploited an African emerald mine and that his predecessors got in a suspicious way, at best. Or that Musk had hair implants because he suffered from early baldness in his years at the helm of PayPal.
Or that he is not even the true founder of Tesla, but was simply one of the first investors and forced the two first-time founders, the engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, to accept that he was also a founder , something that you can corroborate just by reading Wikipedia. According to the original founders, Musk has wanted to rewrite the history of the company since he was named CEO.
The figure of Musk will continue to speak as long as he continues to use his social networks to express the first thing that comes to his mind and will continue to have defenders and detractors who defend this as a sample of his genius and stupidity, according to which one you ask.
Tesla's growth and stocks seem immune to its CEO's decisions , although the other two big companies with Musk at the helm have more problems. SpaceX depends on its contracts with NASA and has great competition, Blue Origin, the aeronautics company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
His other company, The Boring Company is stagnant given the failure of its car-transport tunnels, which went from being projects to burying traffic and making it autonomous to being somewhat more like the M30 tunnel, but for a solo car.
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