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Is Elon Musk Nuts?

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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme

With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

Elon Musk promised that each of the following services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.

Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.

OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don’t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving — though not fully self-driving — taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google’s Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.

But these achievements weren’t enough to make Musk the world’s richest man. His wealth has, instead, historically rested mainly on self-fulfilling faith — investors believing in Musk’s genius have piled into stocks in Musk-controlled companies, and the rising value of these companies has enhanced his reputation for genius.

We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.

More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-human-ponzi-scheme

SpaceX is going public. Its initial public offering (IPO) debuts today on the Nasdaq at a price that implies a $1.77 trillion valuation for a company that had revenues of only $18.7 billion last year and lost money.

How can this, um, astronomical valuation be justified? The IPO is premised partly on the assumption that retail investors will buy in, not because they have made any rational assessment of SpaceX as a business, but because they believe that they are buying stakes in Elon Musk’s genius.

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Sunday, June 14, 2026 1:56 PM

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Science fiction? Musk's lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-science-fiction-musk-lofty-spacex.html

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 3:13 PM

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Will this deflate Tesla’s laughably inflated stock value? No, because stockholders are investing in Elon Musk, not cars.

Tesla retroactively added ‘supervised’ to “Full Self-Driving” contracts that owners signed years ago

By Fred Lambert | Jun 3 2026

https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contra
cts-supervised/

From 2016 through early 2024, Tesla sold “Full Self-Driving Capability” as a software package for up to $15,000, with the promise that it would become fully autonomous through over-the-air software updates. CEO Elon Musk repeatedly claimed unsupervised self-driving was imminent — promising it by the end of every year since 2018.

In March 2024, Tesla formally renamed the package to “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” with the release of FSD v12.3.3. The word “supervised” appeared for the first time, and the fine print now states the system does not make the vehicle autonomous.

By September 2025, Tesla had fully changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, giving up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy. The new CEO compensation package even redefined FSD with vague language that the current supervised system could satisfy.

Then, in April 2026, Musk confirmed that HW3 vehicles — produced between 2016 and 2023 — simply cannot achieve unsupervised FSD due to hardware limitations. That means every vehicle sold with the original “Full Self-Driving Capability” promise on HW3 hardware will never deliver what was promised without a hardware retrofit that Tesla has no concrete plan to implement.

A pattern of disappearing evidence

Making original purchase agreements inaccessible fits a broader pattern.

In August 2024, Tesla deleted a blog post from October 2016 that stated “all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory — including Model 3 — will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.” The post was removed without explanation while lawsuits were building. It is still accessible through the Wayback Machine.

More at https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contra
cts-supervised/

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