Elon Musk's Big Mistake
Kurt Schlichter
| Dec 05, 2022
For a genius, Elon Musk sure got it wrong. He fell for the okey-doke. He took seriously what he was told when he arrived in America. That was a grave error because the story he was told – and the story those of us outside the ruling caste are told – is not the same story that the ruling caste tells itself. It should be, but it isn’t. All that stuff about hard work and free speech – that’s great stuff. But the hard truth is that those who would rule us do not believe a word of it. The hard work part applies only to us; the free speech only to them. And they were understandably baffled when Elon showed up and demonstrated that he fell for their scam.
Dude, what gives? It was all rube bait to get the proles to toil and obey. But now that Elon is acting like what he was told was real, well, that’s screwing everything up.
What was Elon told? He was told that hard work pays off and that it is the key to success. And that is true for us, in the sense that we get to work hard even though it less and less pays off in a country where the deck is stacked against everyone but the feudal few in their blue fiefdoms, like the nicer parts of DC, LA, and NYC. We get to work hard, and we expect a lot from the people we supervise too. Elon worked hard and expected a lot from his folks at Tesla, and he built a massive company with a successful product (successful enough that I own some of its stock and have made a pretty paper profit even after the recent decline resulting from the establishment’s concerted attack on the uppity entrepreneur). Then he did the same at SpaceX, which is doing amazing things. But what do these enterprises have in common?
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