How woke. /s/
For the time being.
Even if they aren’t always bad, they definitely have been the vast majority of the time. It would be up to you to argue why this particular one wouldn’t be bad.
Everything I see says that Musk does not care about the wellbeing of his employees, and has no problem with exploiting them. He’s already been caught ignoring legal requirements to save costs. He has no problem stiffing people to save costs.
There just isn’t any reason to look at the guy who has said and done all of these things and think he might be some highly moral owner who could resist exploiting having that much control over his workers.
I mean, say what you want about the “classic” billionaires, at least some of them have a rudimentary sense of noblesse oblige. Not Elon.
You mean, like, the city of Brownsville, all of 20 km away? Oh, noes, a 12-mile commute! The humanity!
In what universe does it take 4 hours to travel 20-30 km, depending where in Brownsville one is coming from? Down a single, dedicated road with no cross traffic?
Possibly one where the only available transportation is by Hyperloop.
Depends. How many Teslas have caught fire on the road?
It’s not about the drive.* It’s just that the big iron ball shackled to your ankle makes it take a lot longer to get ready for work in the morning.
You guys really don’t get the tech industry.
*40 minutes according to Google maps.
Geez, is the speed limit 30kph on Boca Chica Boulevard?
My daily commute (albeit from the suburbs of Houston, which is considerably more populated) is about 40 minutes one way in normal traffic over a distance of just under 30 km. Traffic gets bad. Some of my co-workers in a different suburb drive just over half that distance but still take 30-40 minutes. And that’s mostly well developed highway except the bits at either end.
Highway 4 isn’t exactly a huge multi-lane expressway, so I could see that taking the better part of an hour each way even without a lot of traffic. There’s going to be speed zones, stop signs, signals, etc along the way. Just over 20 miles in 40 minutes sounds reasonable for that stretch of road.
In theory that might be done via Starlink, providing low cost or even free internet service to the poor and underserved, but I’m not holding my breath.
Only if you look at the US, if you include outside the US, they range from
Extremely dysfunctional:
To horrific:
“Boca Chica” sounds like a porn movie soundtrack
That’s exactly what I thought! Boca chica BOW wow…
The French rubber plantations in Indochina fall on the horrific side as well.
Ah yes, nothing to worry about since we will be protected from abuse by regulations. Those same regulations that Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail to get rid of , and have gutted any enforcement of?
Should be obvious that I was only referring to Messrs. Firestone & Seiberling and their housing around Akron.
And which Elmo despises.
I will say, Houston has some of the shittiest freeway traffic I’ve ever seen in a Western country.
Not seeing it on the map, once you’re outside of the city itself. I mean, I don’t foresee massive traffic merging in from the Palmito Ranch Battlefield or the bustling Raptor Roost… so when you say “traffic gets bad”, in this case, my question remains “what traffic?”
I know it’s not a multi-lane expressway, but it’s not a dirt road, either. I’d expect the speed limit to be 80km/hr for a road like that, here.
All of which is leaving aside the obvious case for a damn bus or six, on that route.
Starlink isn’t doing jack for free outside publicity-hogging “pilots”, and for the rest, “affordable” is in the privileged Western eyes of the beholder (so-called because they expect the Global South to be eternally beholden for their “generosity”, no doubt )
Socialism!