Debunking The Elon Musk Meme

Every now and then a popular meme pops up out of nowhere in order to serve a specific purpose. That meme often rhymes perfectly with a given narrative. For most people today it answers to the name "science". This specific meme is best framed with stories that have to do with saving the world from global warming, colonizing planets and creating a utopia on earth so we can all jerk each other off in an endless euphoric bliss. It sounds awesome right? The only thing missing is the hero to make all these dreams happen.

Elon Musk entered the scene announcing massive plans for space exploration, saving the environment and "energizing" the world — all under the holy name of science-fuck-yeah (as if we have been doing anything different over the past 500 years). Sensationalists around the globe rejoiced and shilled this guy like never before. At last, a noble visionary with a scientific background ready to save us all from the ills of corrupted governments and greedy fossil fuel producers that want to rape the planet. Uncle Sam begun salivating. A new angle was emerging.

Solar City, Space X, Tesla, are the three companies of Elon Musk, each dedicated to solve a unique problem that humanity faces. Thing is, similar companies already exist all over the world. What he is doing is nothing close to revolutionary. His batteries for example are regular NiMh batteries enclosed in a fancy shell (more or less what Apple does with its computers selling them X3 times more than PCs). Space X is literally a branch of NASA, accomplishing all the tasks they couldn't due to complicated budgeting issues that had to do with taxation. Tesla Motors, is also nothing new. Most asian countries have been using electric cars for quite sometime now. In fact Japan is to go fossil free with theirs cars over the next few years.

Here is the real question for any person that likes to think for themselves. What if these companies — and fancy declarations of grandeur — were just sensationalist pieces of information aimed to distract the consumer from the serious problems that the Musk Clusterfuck & Co is facing? What if the blue pilled normies are just scammed into a meme of utopic future - paying for an idea that is ready to collapse at any moment? What if the government found a new way to redeem itself though the same corporatist tactics but this time is selling it via the pop-culture meme of "science-fuck-yeah"?

Musk became famous because he made way too much money with his early start-ups Zip2 and later by selling Paypal to Ebay. More or less he netted $200 million dollars. Thing is, a start-up is much different than a regular company. A start-up is sold more as an idea. More or less is marketing sensationalism. After the startup is sold, it is often dismantled in order to block competition. A company on the other hand is build and maintained based on real value, actual revenue and sustainability. As far as controlling companies, he sucks big time. All three companies are drowned in debt and have massive cash flow issues. Yet, everytime he is balls -against-the-wall, he manages to come up with a new flashy announcement —yet another meme — and the moronic minions flood to fund his new sensationalism offering a new breath of air. In case you missed it, even Goldman Sacks has downgraded his share from "buy" to "neutral". The shitstorm is imminent while the taxpayers share videos of useless rockets landing backwards. I wonder how much pollution he managed to spread with all that jet fuel, testing missiles for his Pimp - the U.S government.

Musk was recently called by the CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, the largest privately-held coal producer in America. He called Musk an outright fraud because he got nearly 2 billion from the taxpayer (uncle Sam is very proud) without making a single cent in revenue. Needless to say that both are being shilled from the government for different reasons but it is nice to see how the scoundrels fight for the share of the pie that comes out of your paycheck.

Musk has received around $4.9 billion in government subsidies so far. If he was to go zero on subsidies (let's say due to a Murica economic meltdown) the company would go broke. Ever since 2004, when Musk invested $6.35 million in Tesla the company has been leeching from the government. So why all this dependency you might ask?

Any customer who buys the electric car meme receives a $7,500 tax deductible, something that gives Tesla an edge over the competition. On top of this, many states (like Nevada) offer tax brakes of their own. The US government has also given Tesla a number of loans that has yet to repay. While he has been blowing off all this money his car production remained poor. From 2008 to 2015 Tesla sold 106,000 cars and it is very unlikely to deliver as promised another 400,000 by 2018. Due to the slow production the company has been losing money and reporting loses ever since. The company’s total debt has climbed from $401 million in June 2012 to $3 billion in June 2016. Now if we had real free market capitalism Elon Musk would be wiping down toilets now.

SolarCity has also been massively shilled from the government with an outstanding $497 million in grants. In addition the home owner receives another 30% for the total cost from the government. Many states are also planning to build their own factories, all sponsored through SolarCity. You can't get more elite corporatism than this. The government is now stealing even more from your pocket so it can make the world "a better place" through a meme of science. Perfect.

Nonetheless, much Like Tesla, SolarCity is losing money. The insane parabolic grow and free money doesn't actually reflect good business practices. Over the past three years, SolarCity’s debt has risen to $3.25 billion and this is due to the fact that they need to borrow money to install solar panels for a customer who — yet again — leases them with little or no up-front cost. Who is paying for all these, nobody yet understands fully.

Since SolarCity was going down the drain, he decided to sell it but no on was willing to buy. Instead, he decided to absorb it himself in a form of a bailout. On July of 2016 Tesla and Solar City merged. Now this is what we call a "Corporatist Inception". Even Nixon would be proud with this kind of tactics.

SpaceX remains rather mysterious due to its "private" nature. Nonetheless, the U.S Force & NASA has awarded them with over $5.5 billion in government contracts. Now then American citizen can sleep tight since every war front across the world would be sponsored by the latest science innovation of Murica & Tesla Inc. Same shit as before, but with different marketed package.

The raw, uncomfortable truth for those who worship Elon Musk is that his companies are not profitable. In 2008 he almost went broke after The Roadster at Tesla— yet again another meme — failed. While borrowing money from friends and family to survive he was saved by a miracle when NASA offered him a contract of $1.6 billion. How fucking convenient right? At the same time, the sensationalist cheerleader of NASA that goes by the name Neil deGrasse Tyson was giving a speech about how a penny on the dollar could make U.S. A a competitive power in the world again by sponsoring another space race much like the one during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This time though, it will be China.

So there you have it folks. Round and round we go to bend over and taste our own shit served in a fancier platter. I was asked before "How is it possible for science to be used for evil?" and I believe that this is a solid answer in regards how you can turn the recent science meme into a driving force to fund the American Imperialistic machine.

Update: Read Here How & Why One Hedge Fund Manager Thinks Tesla Will Go Bankrupt