Tesla CEO Elon Musk vows to 'fix' tainted water in Flint, Michigan

Post by dang » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:57 AM UTC

MotionCaster wrote: post #20

67_45 wrote: post #14

The endless debate about this man undertaking various projects that will improve society if they pan out is absolutely vapid. This doesn't belong here.

Who are you to decide what belongs here? For profit or not, it epitomizes the fact that he is channeling his wealth towards decent course. What have you done for humanity lately? https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-s-south-australian-ba... https://www.electrive.com/2018/04/20/tesla-to-power-puerto-r... https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/10/elon-musk-spacex-subma...

Post by dismantlethesun » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 6:20 AM UTC

dev_dull wrote: post #28

My understanding was that the water isn't actually contaminated, but that they aren't treating it with something that prevents lead from being released in all of the piping. Can someone comment on this? If that's the case, then really the only thing you can do is put some kind of filter directly on the line to the house.

Post by grecy » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 6:33 AM UTC

ModernMech wrote: post #5

Why can't we just tax people and let the government fix stuff like this? Isn't that how its supposed to work? What was wrong with that idea?

Post by nolite » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 8:27 AM UTC

ofrzeta wrote: post #32

colordrops wrote: post #17

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Do you really think him tweeting something and having an assistant hire some private contractors with his personal money is affecting model 3 production rates?

It's about focus vs. distraction. I guess he's free to do what he wants but he already operates Tesla, Boringco, SpaceX. It's just not realistic that you can do all of this and build a rescue submarine in a week and what not. Again, obviously he's free to do (and tweet) what he wants but people (and media) should really start taking his claims with more than a grain of salt. It's becoming more and more a sign of delu…

Post by Fricken » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 11:21 AM UTC

dismantlethesun wrote: post #34

Fricken wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As Musk has said on several occasions in the past, his role as CEO is to direct his attention to what's most critical, and for both Spacex and Tesla it's his savior complex that needs work. UNICEF claims there's a child dying of starvation every 10 minutes right now in Yemen. Maybe he can apply his engineering genius and get 12 of them some breakfast to make up for his minisub misadventure in Thailand.

Don't you ever do things outside of your regular job for 'fun'? Do you have any side projects perhaps? For Musk, this is the equivalent of a side project---something within his field of interest, but not directly a money maker. It's both an interesting problem, and so happens to do good. I think it would be good for society to encourage the rich to have this sort of interst, instead of just falling into the hobby of…