Elon Musk: Visionary or Villain?

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Elon Musk says he cares about humanity–he talks about saving the species through space colonization, AI safety, and sustainable energy. However, his actions often tell a different story. He union-busts, disregards worker safety, spreads misinformation, and makes decisions that prioritize his ego and wealth over real human well-being.

If he truly cared about humanity, he’d prioritize improving conditions on Earth–like supporting labor rights, addressing inequality, and ensuring ethical AI development–rather than pushing grandiose visions that conveniently make him richer and more powerful. His version of “caring” seems more like a billionaire’s self-serving messiah complex than genuine concern.

He claims he wants to go to Mars to ensure humanity’s survival–his whole “multi-planetary species” pitch. He frames it as a backup plan in case Earth becomes uninhabitable due to climate change, nuclear war, or AI gone wrong.

But realistically? It’s a billionaire’s escape plan. Colonizing Mars is wildly impractical. It’s a barren, radiation-soaked wasteland with no breathable air, toxic soil, and temperatures that make Antarctica look tropical. Instead of using his resources to improve life on Earth, he’s selling a sci-fi fantasy where a select few (i.e., the ultra-rich) get to start over while the rest of us deal with the mess they helped create.

At best, his whole colonization of Mars is an ego project. He wants to be remembered as the guy who got humanity to another planet. At worst, it’s a convenient distraction while he hoards wealth and power here on Earth.

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11 thoughts on “Elon Musk: Visionary or Villain?”

  2. Mars is a sterile planet, even after our climate is inhospitable to us and most life it would be far more feasible to live here, miserable as it would be. I could give 1000 reasons why it’s impractical as well as take horrific amounts of money.

    It would cost a fraction of that, far less tech and be way more use to humanity to fix the damage done to this planet – or hey go nuts and get rid of poverty?

    He doesn’t care, he just wants to play iron man/Tony Stark.

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    1. That’s exactly what he wants to do. He wants to be some superhero when in reality he’s more like a supervillain. He has $400 billion. There are 8 billion people in the world. He could easily house each and every one of them, but does he? No. He wants to play make believe.

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      1. Imagine being so up yourself that you’d rather buy twitter and pretend you are an elite gamer than feed the hungry and house the destitute. People use the word evil a lot to describe far less grotesque crime.

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      2. I made a meme a few weeks ago and posted it on Facebook. It’s a picture of Apartheid Clyde with the text: “Claims to be a champion of free speech … bans anyone who hurts his feelings.” He’s just like Trump … if you’re not blindly idolizing them, they think you’re an enemy. Can’t take any sort of criticism.

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      3. Oh yeah that free speech thing they go on about, as long people agree with Clive it’s free speech, otherwise – ban. It’s gutless, I don’t get how his fanbois don’t think he is a seething sweaty mass of small dick energy.

        What happened to these people that they are so pathetic? And they draw the pathetic to them in droves.

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    2. Excuse me, did you not know he is a complete genius? Obviously he will find a way to exploit people so that he can trap all his baby mama’s and spawn on the red rock.

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      1. Yeah he says so all the time! And we should always trust people who tell you how smart they are, especially they have their picks into the state no one elected them to.

        I’d pay good coin to send him and his suspiciously sieg – I mean Roman Saluting buddies to Mars. Is there a go fund me?

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