I’m a physician and even in my short career so far I’ve saved multiple lives and offered comfort to patients and families when I couldn’t. Obviously there are more important contributors to society out there and other docs probably would have made the same calls I did, but I think it’s still more valuable than being an edgelord on twitter.
I used to think Elon was a pompous ass, but have developed a different view. I think Elon believes the world is screwed and he is trying to contribute/ influence the outcome before he is gone. You have heard the saying
"On a a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to zero". In the grand scheme of things, I think he knows our time here is short, so he is taking gambles that have an impact and will have impacts long after he is gone. You know banning censorship, building rockets to get us beyond our limited horizon, building the Starlink communications network, etc..
On a different note, I think the past several years has also seen an explosion of mental health issues, due to isolation, stress, curated media for polarizing the plebeians (keep them distracted and the won't notice anything) etc.... I think it hits some harder than others, especially people in leadership roles or people that already struggle with mental challenges, hell even
medical professionals aren't immune to this.
Ohhhh yeah 500 miles of range. When I got my first Tesla, there weren't any superchargers and it could barely go 240 miles on a charge... if the CT can do 300, I won't have any FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt), that it can travel anywhere, hell the car with 240 drove from the DC swamp to SLC Utah, Toronto and Key West without ever running out of juice and still going strong with its second owner now headed towards 200K miles on the ODO with the original battery and I towed with that Model S all the time.
I enjoy his X communications. I get a laugh every week. I think he would be a tough guy to work for, but its those polarizing characters who change the world, while the rest of us sit in the arena and bitch.
I recommend you read
The Man in the Arena
“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer,” he said. “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
jacobin.com
