EVERYTHING Elon does is circled around his belief that we need to be living on Mars. Spaceships to get there. Satellites for communications when we get there. Electrical cars since no oil to drive there. Tunnel boring to make the roads and cities there.
Why would buying Twitter be any different? He currently is meeting serious resistance from USGOV and FAA on launching Starships. Postponed many times and may be postponed yet again due to environmental studies in TX.
Maybe; just maybe; total guess here; He thinks twitter would be a benefit to him during future elections to help either steer the future governments to directions he wants; or at a minimum move away from the one currently in power that's holding him back. I can certainly see it helping with his mantra "Going to Mars soon". Just another cog in the engine.
I just do not think this is about the money. A lot of people are talking about his stock price etc. Elon has never been about the money. It is about his end goals. Either the purchase of twitter is his repairing a social injustice he perceives, not normally on his radar. Or; it is a move to further his goal.
I really think this whole "everything Elon does is for Mars" is yet another story/myth he's perpetuated.
He's a businessman. He wants money; he wants respect; he wants power. Like most businessmen/politicians/people of stature of that caliber, he's just couching it all within a story that's much more palatable to the general public than saying that.
Also, I personally have always found how Tesla fits into this Mars equation laughable: why are we building sprawling infrastructure that needs cars on Mars? Is his imagination limited to Atherton, but on Mars? A much better use of limited resources (and oxygen) to build infrastructure would be to build denser, walkable colonies with major corridors served by public transit. Electric light rail or self-guided people movers are not new or novel, but we all know how Elon feels about public transit.
> postponed yet again due to environmental studies in TX.
If Biden picked up the phone to Dickson over at the FAA that PEA could be done in days. Likewise if Biden asked him to "make sure it's all done right" (or something) we're looking at many more months of waiting... and Musk is going to get bored/creative and do stuff like this!
EVERYTHING Elon does is circled around his belief that we need to be living on Mars. Spaceships to get there. Satellites for communications when we get there. Electrical cars since no oil to drive there. Tunnel boring to make the roads and cities there.
Why would buying Twitter be any different? He currently is meeting serious resistance from USGOV and FAA on launching Starships. Postponed many times and may be postponed yet again due to environmental studies in TX.
Maybe; just maybe; total guess here; He thinks twitter would be a benefit to him during future elections to help either steer the future governments to directions he wants; or at a minimum move away from the one currently in power that's holding him back. I can certainly see it helping with his mantra "Going to Mars soon". Just another cog in the engine.
I just do not think this is about the money. A lot of people are talking about his stock price etc. Elon has never been about the money. It is about his end goals. Either the purchase of twitter is his repairing a social injustice he perceives, not normally on his radar. Or; it is a move to further his goal.