Tesla CEO Elon Musk always has a lot of labels under his name, and there are not many people, from company decisions to tweets, and every move is on Twitter every minute.
Billionaire, the richest man, these two labels naturally needless to say. But in addition, friends who are active on Twitter should have a more empathetic sense of words such as "fickle", "love meme", and "arrogance".
Today, let's take a look at what the Time Magazine-selected Person of the Year has posted online in the last month.
At around 8:30 p.m. US time on December 4, Musk teased fans of the "Decentralized Autonomous Organization" (DAO) and Web 3.0 through Twitter, portraying them as the kind of people who would promote blockchain in front of the toilet urinal and next to the "toilet neighbor" and like evangelists of the gospel.
Although Musk did not post any comments, the meme (internet meme) he posted has fully explained his ideas for him. In the picture, Web 3.0 advocates walk up to a man who is going to the bathroom and hug him and say:
"Hey bro, you really should get into cryptocurrency, Web 3.0 is the future we're heading into, join our DAO!"
A joke from the billionaire CEO caused all three of the top three cryptocurrencies to fall the next morning — bitcoin, which still dominates, fell 12 percent.
Musk was interviewed on a podcast by artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman. The conversation ranged from SpaceX launches to colonizing Mars and even his love affair, and finally the host asked Musk about who Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto (not his real name), was.
Musk alluded in the interview to Satoshi Nakamoto as Nick Szabo (a computer scientist and cryptographer who helped develop smart contracts and an early form of cryptocurrency called "bit gold"). Musk also denied that he himself was Satoshi Nakamoto. He said that if he were, he would admit it.
Think about it, after all, as far as his state of speaking freely on Twitter is concerned, if he were Satoshi Nakamoto, it is estimated that he would have declared the world a long time ago.
Musk, who loves memes, posted a picture on Twitter that infuriated his many followers.
In this image, a person is covered in an overdose of the vaccine, possibly COVID-19, wearing a mask and a QR code on his head. Another person is "Yes Chad" meme, a figure who often speaks in a rational role. Both characters are thinking "Why aren't they dead yet?" ”
Many netizens were very dissatisfied with the spread of Musk's anti-vaccine beliefs and misinformation, saying that Musk's approach was not responsible.
Earlier, Musk refused to close the Tesla factory even though the city implemented an "in-place evacuation" order, and he also refused to vaccinate. He also released (now removed) Bill Gates' memes for mental control using vaccines.
Musk tweeted on December 15 and 20:
"If you draw two seconds and look around, you'll realize I'm going to pay the highest tax in U.S. history this year."
"For those who want to know, I'm going to pay more than $11 billion in taxes this year."
That number may sound like a lot, but it's still only a fraction of Musk's huge net worth. In fact, Musk made nearly $13 billion in the fall of 2021 by selling Tesla stock alone.
Musk is clearly struggling to accept the fact that Americans have to pay taxes every year. He has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the concept of taxation. In his view, enterprises and governments have a better understanding and planning of the allocation of funds. He once tweeted and asked:
"At the end of the day, who is best at capital allocation, government or entrepreneur?"
The recent metaverse concept fire, Meta (formerly known as Facebook), claimed that immersive virtual worlds would completely replace our boring two-dimensional screens. In an interview with conservative website The Babylon Bee, Musk slammed the concept of a metaverse, saying he certainly wouldn't be driven by the idea of "sticking a horrible screen all day and not wanting to leave the virtual world."
"Do I sound like the people who in '95 saw the internet as a flash or never had any real impact?"
Sure, you can put "TV" (referring to VR glasses) on your nose, but I'm not sure it's going to put you in the metaverse. It's uncomfortable to have this stuff tied to your head all the time, and I don't think we're actually getting into the metaverse. ”
Musk also offers what he thinks is a better alternative — surgical implantation of brain chips — by Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company he co-founded.
"In the long run, Neuralink allows you to fully immerse yourself in virtual reality,"
Musk is also targeting Web 3.0, the concept of democratizing the internet by rebuilding it around blockchain. In an interview, he described Web 3.0 as "marketing more than reality."
In an interview at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit, Musk warned that "getting people to live longer or even forever with new technologies" could actually be a very bad idea.
"Death is important to us because most of the time people don't change their minds, they just die, and if you live forever, we can become a very rigid society where new ideas can never be pushed."
Musk also added that he doesn't think there are any secret technologies that can fight aging. His ideas shouldn't come as a shock to anyone, after all Musk is a man with a lot of ideas, and he's benefited a lot from driving innovation and change — for better or worse. In his world, there are no rigid and outdated ideas, and he always has his own way of understanding some of the latest ideas.
His remarks also explained his continued efforts to fight back against U.S. regulators who are paying increasingly close attention to his business. The news also came after he called earlier this month for an "age limit" for U.S. government leaders.
Musk, a 50-year-old father of six, also argued at the event that a "rapid decline in birth rates" worldwide is "one of the greatest risks facing civilization." In other words, he argues that getting people to live longer will lead to a rapid aging of the population, which will lead to a further decline in the birth rate as fewer and fewer people are willing to have children.
Musk is known to be not a man who follows the rules, especially when he thinks the rules are fake.
The billionaire envisions a world, or perhaps a much smaller society on Mars than we live in now. There is no need for a higher hierarchy of power in this world, where everyone can do whatever they want.
"If there's a utopia where people can get any goods or services they want, then everyone will have a lot of things," Musk told Time Magazine after being named Person of the Year today. "If we're in a highly automated future, robots can do anything. Then any work you do is because you want to do it, not because you have to do it. ”
All in all, Musk described himself as a "utopian anarchist" in Time magazine.
But such a society would not be completely free of rules. Musk argued in the interview that he was not trying to create extreme freedom to cause chaos, but rather that people could be free from anyone's control. This is obviously a vision built on utopian ideals, but can it really be realized? Will people live happier?
We have seen that the process of transition to a more automated society can easily lead to the consolidation of power – often the result of firms being built on the flesh and blood of workers. But in a technologically advanced anarchic society, does everyone really enjoy doing whatever they want? When complete freedom is achieved, will everyone really be able to find what they really want to do?
Letting machines take over the basics can be said to lead to some considerable changes in the basic structure of society – which will undoubtedly test any civilization.
Musk's vision can be said to be a bit far-fetched. Letting everyone fend for themselves while being satisfied with the wealth they have acquired is clearly a utopian dream.
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