DANN muss man diese Aussagen aber in einen Kontext setzen. Und kann sie nicht so einfach für sich und verkürzt stehen lassen.
(BTW: Dadurch werden diese Aussagen natürlich nicht "besser". Aber Kontext und Originalzitate finde ich schon wichtig um Aussagen bewerten zu können.
Diese Aussagen wurden im gestern abgehaltenen Q1 2020 Earnings Conference Call von Tesla motors getätigt und beziehen sich auf shelter in place order verschiedener US Bundesländer im Rahmen der Coronamaßnahmen.
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Adam Jonas
Elon, on that point, you mentioned people that gave their lives to build the country. My fault for you on this. There have been a lot of comparisons drawn to the state of the U.S. economy in the early 1930s when Roosevelt began a series of new deals and infrastructure projects or post-World War 2 when Eisenhower launched the U.S. Highway Act and JFK launched the Apollo Program, which you could say was influenced by the Cold War, clearly, and you benefited from and our space program benefited from. What would be your message to U.S. lawmakers on this call as we – in addition to your opinion on shelter in place, but thinking the longer term, your message to U.S. lawmakers coming out of the crisis, specifically around EV infrastructure and a chance to work with taxpayers to support sustainable transport and renewable energy? I'm wondering if you see this as a chance to make the crisis and all the loss and lives lost not be in vain. Thanks.
Elon Musk
I think, it's high time we invested in infrastructure in this country. We have a lot of a crumbling highways and bridges. And frankly, when I visit China, I see their infrastructure as being much better than ours. It's great. Europe has better infrastructure. It's really quite sad that U.S. infrastructure especially it’s roads and highways is where it is today. And our airports, in a lot of cases, are an embarrassment.
So -- and it's not just a question of money. It's a question of will. Sometimes, we spend a lot of money on these things, but what are we gaining for it? So -- and yeah, we really need to be thinking about what is the transportation of the future, not the transportation of the past.
If this was 1920, do you want to be investing in steam engines or in commercial engines? Obviously that’s not steam engines. So this is the time to think about the future and also to ask, is it right to infringe upon people's rights, as what is happening right now. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry, because somebody should really -- if somebody wants to stay in their house, that's great. They should be allowed to stay in the house, and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house, and they will be arrested if they do, this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.
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Seine Aussagen hatten nichts mehr mit der eigentlichen Frage zu tun. Sie hatten nichts mehr mit dem earnings call zu tun. Sie hatten nichts mehr mit Tesla zu tun.
Und mit SICHERHEIT hatten sie keine Beziehung zu SpaceX oder der Raumfahrt im allgemeinen.
Er hätte als Tesla CEO hier seine Meinung für sich behalten sollen. Es ist schon gut, dass SpaceX Shotwell als Presidenten hat.
PS: Und im übrigen bin ich der persönlichen Ansicht, dass dieser Thread (so lange er denn keinen reinen, engen Raumfahrtbezug halten kann) nicht in dieses Forum gehört.
Edit: Zitatblock gekürzt. Pirx
Edit2:
Quelle
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4341298-tesla-inc-tsla-ceo-elon-musk-on-q1-2020-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=singleSensei
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