What a piece of shit.
Three headlines that tell you everything you need to know about this asshole:
3/06: The coronavirus panic is dumb (Musk's Tweet).
3/17: Tesla factory is still open for business as Musk tells employees 'I will personally be at work'
3/26: Tesla email reveals two employees have tested positive for COVID-19
It's honestly shocking that this piece of shit has fans still. You can love Tesla cars and admire SpaceX landing booster vehicles without supporting Musk as a person. Only such an arrogant asshole would keep spewing nonsense after being wrong so god damn many times.
Yep. It's fine to be glad that his engineering projects are advancing science, but that technological progress is not much without societal progress necessary for it to actually benefit all people.
Musk's brand of anti-intellectualism here does nothing but make people distrust and fear facts and science (medical or otherwise); a gross regressive social ideal that singularly stunts and reverses social & scientific progress inherently while promoting financial inequality that makes it so that less and less people have access to any beneficial technology that happens to still be made.
Sure he's an innovator but his behavior outside of the lab and in the real world actively enforces a situation where those innovations are out of reach and disincentivized or suppressed in society.
Becoming a doctor or engineer or researcher and helping to advance science loses value in a world where people are encouraged not to listen to doctors, ignore or manipulate science for the sake of profit, and where professionals with the knowledge, insight and facts are demonized to the point of violence when the theocratic, populist leader tells his worshipers that he has all the answers and all the pros are lying.
