Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's easy to sit around and mock this and like look at these rubes being led astray by Elon.
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And you're seeing a lot of it with the SpaceX thing, right?
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Look at I can't believe these idiots are gonna invest in this company with these numbers.
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And that's why this paragraph was there.
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in a mocking tone to reflect sort of that reality.
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But
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The what Musk is doing and has done again and again is sell people on a dream such that they will put money into the dream, and that's the means by which he goes and pursues the dream.
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Yeah.
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Like he's he's flipped over the process.
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He creates movements to fund infrastructure instead of infrastructure building to a movement.
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It's a complete inversion of the way things used to.
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work he is the master of retail in that way the master of the internet uh of memes like like test like spacex is the new meme meme stock like like that's just going to be that's going to be the case
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Like.
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And so the question then, if you accept that
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as this is what happens.
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It seems irrational, but this is what happens.
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Is there a path?
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To build
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So you look at all the idiots who were at like buying uh unbelievably expensive Tesla stock and doubling down when they were issuing more, like they all made a lot of money.
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But at the end of the day, ever like all the people who were pointing out that it was dumb uh didn't get ripped the people who held the stock down.
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