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'''Elon Musk''' (born June 28, 1971) is an [[American]] billionaire most people associate with the [[Tesla Motors]] company. Also a co-founder of [[PayPal]], a CEO for SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity. He supposedly is "socially [[liberal]] and fiscally [[conservative]]"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OPxitgvmw Elon Musk: The Way Of The Future]</ref> but endorsed [[hyperinflation]]ist [[Andrew Yang]] for the [[Democratic party]] nomination in the [[2020 presidential election]].  He believes in man-made [[global warming]]. Musk was born in [[South Africa]], raised in [[Canada]] and resides in Los Angeles. His wealth is estimated at $14 billion.  

'''Elon Reeve Musk''' is a South African-American billionaire who is a prime example of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacle_(critical_theory) spectacle] of capitalism. Particularly online, there is an intense cult of personality around him.

Musk companies are thriving due to government subsidies. Tesla Motors and SolarCity have taken a huge financial hit in 2016. Both these companies are based on the green energy movement and are being punished by the markets due to extremely low oil prices. Musk lost a personal fortune upwards of $4 billion. In 2017, Tesla Motors would acquire all of SolarCity stocks. The highly anticipated [[Tesla Model 3]] starts shipping at the end of July. The stock valuation of Tesla has exceed that of [[GM]], Ford, and Chrysler.

Elon Musk has a vested interest in generating maximum profit, even if means seriously risking the health of his workers in particular and the populace in general. He has insistently tried to make the pandemic look less severe so that his employees will continue manufacturing products, for instance by promoting studies that suggest doctors are inflating case numbers for financial reasons,<ref>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1254541286335545345</ref> or that the vast majority of fatalities in Italy are due to other causes.<ref>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1241735253204406273</ref> He promoted a widely discredited paper on the benefits of chloroquine,<ref>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947</ref> and has further compared COVID-19 to the common cold.<ref>https://twitter.com/i/status/1223087177313091584</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1223173907081056256</ref> He also frequently characterizes the disease as a "panic": on March 6th, he said simply “The coronavirus panic is dumb”,<ref>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528</ref> and on the 14th he said the “danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona”,<ref>http://archive.is/lUled</ref> as part of a larger thread promoting chloroquine as an effective treatment. On March 19th, he predicted that the US would see close to zero new cases by the end of April<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200319233226/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960</ref> — a claim which was by evaluation dramatically wrong.

Elon Musk indicates that he does not pray to or worship any divine being. However, he asked "any entities that [were] listening" to "bless [the] launch" before the important Falcon 1 launch by SpaceX, a company he founded in 2002.<ref>[https://baron-magazine.com/2018/09/11/elon-musk/ Elon Musk - biography]</ref>

The intensity with which he downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic makes a lot more sense when considering that he gets massive multi-million dollar payouts if Tesla makes a certain amount of profit. In quarter 1 of 2020, this amount was $720 million that he received in stock options, which he barely achieved in time<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200810065527/https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-pay-salary-bonus-stock/ Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seriously close to a $720M payout]</ref> and which was likely due to him keeping factories open as the pandemic worsened, and which ultimately resulted in over 130 of his employees contracting the disease.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200830165410/https://media.thinknum.com/articles/at-least-130-tesla-employees-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19-musk-has-stayed-mute/ Elon Musk stays mute as 130+ Tesla employees test positive for COVID-19]</ref>

During California's [[CCP global pandemic]] lockdown, according to ''The Verge'' Musk said,

{{quotebox|If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is [[fascist]]. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their g*****n freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science</ref>}}

Elon Musk's father bought half of an emerald mine in the mid-1980s which according to Business Insider, "would help to fund his family’s lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200523200038/https://moguldom.com/278102/fact-check-did-elon-musk-inherit-apartheid-money-from-his-south-african-father Fact Check: Did Elon Musk Inherit Apartheid Money From His South African Father?]</ref> Despite this, Elon denies this was the case and instead says that he was a hard worker throughout his youth, ending up with about $100,000 in student debt anyways.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191231163459/https:/twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211071324518531072</ref> Such claims, though, are hard to believe coming from someone who allegedly once naively sold his parent's gems to a New York jewelry,<ref name="businessinsider_elon">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200530005141/https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-sells-the-family-emeralds-in-new-york-2018-2 A teenage Elon Musk once casually sold his father's emeralds to Tiffany & Co. while his dad was sleeping]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200727050531/https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/errol-musk-elon-father-myths Everything to Know About Errol Musk, Elon's “Brilliant,” “Terrible” Father]</ref> while his father talked about how financially set they were: "We were very wealthy [...] We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.".<ref name="businessinsider_elon" />

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==Jeffrey Epstein==

Elon further attributes much of his understanding and background in engineering to his father, who himself comes from a privileged background.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200730124656/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850 Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow]</ref>

In August 2018, reporters at ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on [[Jeffrey Epstein]] to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive. Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein. "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review.   Stewart wrote, "He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html</ref>-->

 

Musk's plan to dig tunnels under cities to transport people's cars. A lot of these circuits are planned to run near existing subway infrastructure, so they are redundant, and on top of that this idea runs into problems like getting permits for all the land this would run through as well as having to avoid existing underground structures like utility lines, subway routes, pedestrian tunnels, building foundations, etc.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs Elon Musk's "Loop" - It's bad, folks]</ref>

 

The supposed cost-savings the tunnels make over existing subway tunnels are neglecting the costs of the other facilities provided by subways, like the installation and maintenance of utility lines, the continuous supply of power to these lines, the installation of stations, and so forth. Considering merely the cost of the tunnel, which is only what Elon Musk focuses on, his tunnels cost about the average for what ones of their diameter and length have already, so there are no real cost savings. Other problems with these tunnels is that getting emergency services to a car in a tunnel would be very difficult, as these tunnels have only one lane. There would also have to be a very large amount of elevators, which would have to be operating unreasonably fast, especially during rush hour traffic.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezF7NmwQZs</ref>

 

==Connections to the Epstein family==

[https://i.imgur.com/UPwXMyS.jpg This picture] has been making the rounds on the Internet following the arrest of Ghislane Maxwell. People have been replying to his tweets with it, to which either his fans or Elon himself will get extremely defensive; it’s so big that Elon himself spoke on it a couple times, claiming it was a photobomb and that she “snuck up on him”, which is ridiculous because the photo is centered squarely on Musk and Maxwell. Epstein was in regular contact with Elon's brother Kimbal Musk and in 2011, Epstein set him up with a woman from his entourage who Kimbal ended up dating her for a year. The woman, who had previously dated Epstein, lived in an apartment building where he was known to house certain women. So even if she was legal, this woman who dated Musk’s brother for a year must have had some connection and knowledge of Epstein’s continuing activities. In 2012, just as Epstein had sought out in exchange for his earlier "favor" to Elon's brother, he and his entourage were arranged a private tour of Elon Musk's SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200114021147/https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-dated-kimbal-musk-brother-of-tesla-founder-elon-musk-2020-1

Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources say]</ref> — four years after it was revealed that Epstein was convicted for raping a minor. At that time, federal officials had further identified 36 more girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Julie K.|title=How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html|access-date=November 28, 2018|work=Miami Herald|date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128153832/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html|archive-date=November 28, 2018|url-status=live|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Buncombe|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/who-is-jeffrey-epstein-a-study-of-the-man-linked-to-worlds-of-celebrity-politics--and-royalty-9954397.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein: the billionaire paedophile with links to Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Robert Maxwell – and Prince Andrew|work=The Independent|location=London, England|date=January 2, 2015|access-date=November 7, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150925183442/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/who-is-jeffrey-epstein-a-study-of-the-man-linked-to-worlds-of-celebrity-politics--and-royalty-9954397.html|archive-date=September 25, 2015}}</ref> In 2011 Elon Musk attended an elite private dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, less than 2 years after he served a prison sentence for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190915111003/https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-dinner-bezos-elon-musk-bill-gates-report-2011-2019-9 Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Marissa Mayer reportedly attended an elite private dinner with Jeffrey Epstein just 2 years after he served a prison sentence for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl]</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/jcoviedo6/status/1279518040405823488</ref> Elon repeatedly denied he went to such a dinner party, and further claims that Epstein hasn't even toured SpaceX<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200704181906/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-denies-that-jeffrey-epstein-toured-spacex-facilities-2020-7 Elon Musk denies Jeffrey Epstein toured SpaceX facilities]</ref> He claims that he refused to have anything to do with Epstein, and said that he was “obviously a creep” when he had first met him — although he would still go to a dinner party afterwards in 2011 with this "creep". After Epstein was murdered, The New York Times published a detailed account of a 90-minute-long meeting they had held with Epstein — and it had a lot to do with Elon Musk. Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be both a financial adviser and a crisis manager for Tesla and Elon.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190812220003/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People]</ref>

<blockquote>Mr. Epstein avoided specifics about his work for Tesla. He told me that he had good reason to be cryptic: Once it became public that he was advising the company, he’d have to stop doing so, because he was “radioactive.” He predicted that everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend.</blockquote>

Epstein told the reporter that he suspected Tesla and Musk would deny speaking to him<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191114220927/https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeffrey-epstein-advised-tesla-elon-musk NYT Writer: Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Advised Tesla, Elon Musk]</ref>, and as he predicted, Musk spokesperson Keely Sulprizio told Stewart that “it is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything”.

<blockquote>Mr. Epstein then meandered into a discussion of other prominent names in technology circles. He said people in Silicon Valley had a reputation for being geeky workaholics, but that was far from the truth: They were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs. He said he’d witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex.”</blockquote>

The New York Times had exclusive access to a full interview with Jeffrey Epstein that was released directly after his death, and the overwhelming majority of this interview ended up being about his connections advising Tesla and Elon Musk.

 

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that Elon has all these connections to Epstein, given the Musk family history. After all, Elon Musk’s dad had a child with his stepdaughter, and it’s a well-known fact that pedophilia runs in families,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170113140300/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4469797/ Sexual offending runs in families: A 37-year nationwide study]</ref> and in fact correlates more strongly with one’s genes than one’s family environment.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150421191405/https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/sex-offending-genes-more-important-than-family-environment Sex offending: genes more important than family environment]</ref>

 

All of the denials of Elon’s involvement with Epstein are extremely shaky. His ex-wife Talulah Riley, who “wanted to respond publicly with @elonmusk’s permission”,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200704200722/https://twitter.com/talulahriley/status/1279506448045805569</ref> came out with a statement denying Elon's relation to Ghislane Maxwell. Of course, all of the PR statements and Elon-approved accounts of those events are going to paint Elon as an angel, completely non-complicit and non-involved in Epstein’s dealings; in spite of the wealth of photos, written statements, and other records which point in the opposite direction.

 

At the end of the day, there’s no concrete evidence yet that 100% proves that Elon was directly complicit with Epstein’s activities. However, there’s an abundance of evidence that shows that at the very least, he was heavily involved with Epstein.

 

The largest lithium reserves are in Bolivia, although Musk says he gets his from Australia. Bolivia had a coup in 2019, whose primary motivations included opening up its lithium reserves to foreign capitalists, which Musk may have a role in. On Twitter, he had this to say about the coup:

<blockquote>We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200726013734/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286866843307737088</ref></blockquote>

 

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