The Elon Musk Thread

[beiser]

They should move to the country there's a house down the street near a creek, 2BR for $50k and ready to move in (no work needed). Plus the KwikMart is hiring. Mortgage will be about $150 a month; if you work parttime at the gas station for minimum wage, you still got cash left over.

you're playing the dumbass today aren't you

if you're working part time at the gas station you don't get health insurance and are on the hook for an additional 160/mo in health insurance premiums. add $200 for food, whatever car maintenence costs, and your $942.50 (pre-tax) doesn't look so rich. if the kwikmart stops giving you hours, or you realize that your shit house is full of black mold, well, sounds like you're just fucked.

"real wages stopped rising in 1972" is like a cliche at this point but jesus, not that hard to see why people would get blackpilled by a loss of any belief in the future. keep in mind that it's impossible to simultaneously hold that stagnation causes deaths of despair and that nobody cares about absolute changes in wealth, only relative ones.

 

[beiser]

@Linebaugh you're gonna leave the epic Henry George comment hangin and respond to my bullshit instead?

I don't necessarily disagree, but listen for a sec to Trump voters. They aren't actually asking for handouts. That's not what they're after. Maybe they've been hoodwinked by the bad orange man and if they had Medicare For All, they'd stop ODing on fentanyl. I'm a little skeptical. Unfortunately, there isn't an obvious way to get them what they want, which seems like a combination of respect, status, economic relevance, and slowing social change.

these were the same folks who started saying that the virus didn't exist because they realized the cash for their mortgage was drying up. they're not complete idiots, they're just laser-focused on retaining a pretense of dignity, at any cost. There's a reason medicare for all polls well; if anything, they just seem to lack faith in the state's willingness to execute on it in a way that doesn't make things even worse.

 

[beiser]

With whom?

gus's "nobody minds being shot in the middle of the street as long as their neighbors do worse" social-psych bullshit machine

 

[sus]

if you're working part time at the gas station you don't get health insurance and are on the hook for an additional 160/mo in health insurance premiums. add $200 for food, whatever car maintenence costs, and your $942.50 (pre-tax) doesn't look so rich. if the kwikmart stops giving you hours, or you realize that your shit house is full of black mold, well, sounds like you're just fucked.

Who needs healthcare? Just stay healthy like me.

you're playing the dumbass today aren't you

Yes

 

[luka]

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Classy guy able to restrain himself when faced with such blatant feet on seat.

 

[pattycakes_]

my biggest techbro takeover fear is a world in which most human interaction feels like that conversation

 

[luka]

It's sort of cute tbh

 

[yyaldrin]

is he using botox?

 

[luka]

Botox hair transplant jaw reconstruction. Some other bits too.

 

[luka]

It's not that awkward though it's more opening up and becoming natural and enthusiastic after discovering common ground and safety

 

[beiser]

Nothing but good things to say about Sam Altman. I hear rumors he's a bit of a Georgist, actually.

 

[luka]

Who's Sam Altman?

 

[Murphy]

his right leg is all "you're in my faaackin manor now, son" (said as Bulla)

 

[beiser]

guy in the video who isn't elon

 

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

You're my wife now.

 

[sus]

I've liked the limited Altman interviews I've read
He's definitely my second-favorite Altman after Rob
But I've heard some folks decry him as just a manager—the failed founder who switched to mgmt
Actually that comes from my PM at work

 

[sus]

Endeared at Elon's engagement with the crew

 

[Leo]

Endeared at Elon's engagement with the crew

he's probably talking to his cadre of PR handlers.