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To Americans,
I also don’t blindly support everything @elonmusk does. I also dislike how he gets too deep into politics, speaks w/o filters & some others things..
But from America’s perspective, he has made enormous contributions & I believe you people really should be grateful to him.
I sometimes struggle to understand why some of you resent Elon’s wealth.
Just imagine what the world might look like today if Elon had NOT existed.
Russia would still dominate the space industry & NASA would likely still be relying on far more expensive traditional approaches. (SpaceX has actually saved the US taxpayers many billions of dollars.)
Have you already forgotten the Russia-Ukraine war? W/o Starlink, most people around the world would NEVER have properly known what was happening there. Russia would've simply swallowed Ukraine & that would've created an enormous risk for Europe, far greater than anything we see today.
Elon provided Starlink for free out of goodwill. However, Ukraine was the one that crossed the line first by trying to use it for military purposes, so the support was cut off. Yet people still blindly attack Elon, even though they themselves did nothing for this at all.
Let’s think about EVs.
China would almost certainly dominate the EV market. Look at where GM & Ford stood for yrs. Tesla forced the entire industry to move & w/o it the US would've had far less of a foothold. Gas dependency would've been much higher than it is now & self-driving would be a completely different story.
And then there is AI, the trajectory would look very different w/o him.
Now look at the jobs.
Across his companies, ~100,000 people draw a direct paycheck today in the United States. (When you include suppliers, contractors & the broader economic activity those wages support, the total impact is estimated in the hundreds of thousands of jobs.)
The thing is,
His wealth was NOT taken from your pocket. It was created by building companies that did NOT exist before & that produce real products & real value.
W/o him, much of that economic activity & the tax revenue that comes w/ it simply would NEVER exist.
You also should remember in 2021 alone he paid >$11B in taxes, one of the largest personal tax payments in American history.
The people you should be criticizing are NOT Elon, but those who treat his success as a problem to be punished while ignoring the value he has created & the jobs & technology that flow from it.
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This has been a bit telling, watching people mis-analyze what they’re seeing here, from both fandoms. 😅
What should be the takeaway here is a tip of the cap to Red Bull for what they’ve done on the aero-mechanical side. The update was impressive, it may now be the most efficient car on track.
Their PU is solid, certainly not on par with HPP, but a small step ahead of Ferrari still.
But what we can see now is they’ve retained predictable downforce for the drivers to use, albeit less overall than Ferrari, while shedding a significant amount of drag and excellent mechanical grip for torque application at the rear.
What you see here in traction zones and straight line is as much corner prep and chassis as it is engine. People conflate this with only being deployment.
Lewis having more downforce allows a bit more aggressive braking and fighting back in the corners, but it’s not to be compared to Verstappen’s traction application and efficiency without sacrificing corners fully. The lap time is about making the proper compromises, and Red Bull have found an excellent compromise again.
A key thing to note in this discussion… notice the significant lack of Verstappen vs Hamilton content in this? That’s because it’s about their cars. Both laps are well within the limits of driving capability.
Red Bull may do well in race trim tomorrow as well, as long as they can avoid a sliding spiral of thermal issues. That’s true for everyone, though. Ferrari’s extra downforce may help them on the tires as well.
McLaren and Mercedes are wildcards to me.
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