"A board loaded with defense contractors and one draft-dodging war hawk will decide the future of the US military," said one observer. "What could possibly go wrong?"
Just to use Henry Ford as an example the assembly line was revolutionary for the time since it allowed labor specialization on each step of production
Colt did it over 60 years before Ford. Ford’s big achievement was coming up with a way to effectively apply it to car manufacturing. He was also very good at design for manufacturability, and design for maintainability with the widely available tech of the day. A blacksmith could fix a lot of things with a Model T.
Ford was not a dumbass. He was, however, a control frek, a racist, an antisemite and a proto-fascist.
Musk, on the other hand, has never done anything but own things. When he had to make decisions at PayPal, they were so bad that he was fired.
My point exactly in a far more succinct way. Though I will point out that it wasn’t necessarily just cars that it was applied to but a lot of large products as well, a bit like when your playing a game and unlock a small version of a tech and then get a large version later.
Regardless Musk may as well be Ford but with none of the positives.
Colt did it over 60 years before Ford. Ford’s big achievement was coming up with a way to effectively apply it to car manufacturing. He was also very good at design for manufacturability, and design for maintainability with the widely available tech of the day. A blacksmith could fix a lot of things with a Model T.
Ford was not a dumbass. He was, however, a control frek, a racist, an antisemite and a proto-fascist.
Musk, on the other hand, has never done anything but own things. When he had to make decisions at PayPal, they were so bad that he was fired.
My point exactly in a far more succinct way. Though I will point out that it wasn’t necessarily just cars that it was applied to but a lot of large products as well, a bit like when your playing a game and unlock a small version of a tech and then get a large version later.
Regardless Musk may as well be Ford but with none of the positives.