According to its website, The Boring Company believes major cities need either flying cars or tunnels in order to get rid of traffic. Musk settled on the latter solution because tunnels aren’t impacted by weather changes and “won’t fall on your head.”
He is a certain type of anti-intellectual who believes “nothing is true unless I discover it myself.”
Education is useless, truth is a lie, etc, etc.
So he destroys everything he touches until he can recreate knowledge himself, poorly, expensively, and redundantly. Then declares himself a genius for getting back to basically where the rest of humanity already was years ago.
It is like he wasn’t aware that subways exist.
He is a certain type of anti-intellectual who believes “nothing is true unless I discover it myself.”
Education is useless, truth is a lie, etc, etc.
So he destroys everything he touches until he can recreate knowledge himself, poorly, expensively, and redundantly. Then declares himself a genius for getting back to basically where the rest of humanity already was years ago.
Plus I doubt he ever accepts being wrong
You’ve got to see what they built in Vegas, it looks like a comedy skit.
Cars are a status symbol. He hasn’t forgotten alternatives exists he just despises their existence because they are beneath him.
To the rich any service of society that is not catered exclusively to to the rich is a disgrace and a threat to their ego.
Or that tunnels can collapse.
This is one of my favorite videos on the internet. Tech bros reinventing things: https://youtu.be/3jhTnk3TCtc?si=kiOyTotsD4qwrTLH
He owns a car company, why would he glorify what he sees as competition?