Everyone’s always talking about how Teslas are the best EVs, and while I don’t doubt that they’re great, if that’s the best that an EV can be, I don’t think I’ll be switching over. I don’t care about sports car comparable 0 to 60 times, and while I appreciate clean and minimal, Teslas are a little too minimal for my tastes.
I hate that Tesla started this trend of having a giant touchscreens in the center of the dash. Maybe some people really like that, I don’t. I mean, it’s nice to have a screen for navigation and a backup camera, but the relatively small screen in my wife’s Rav 4 does perfectly well for all that, and it still has physical switches for climate control, and the like, which I prefer.
Also, I think they are kind of boring looking, too. Overall, I’m just not sure what it is that supposedly makes them better than every other EV, really. Maybe it’s just a perception thing. But the biggest issue for me is Elon Musk, I associate him with the Tesla brand and he embodies everything I hate about capitalism.
Maybe the biggest problem with capitalism is how many, if not most, entrepreneurs become convinced that they’re the primary reason for a company’s success, like that their brilliance and effort alone made the company great, and without their leadership nothing would ever get produced, economies would never grow, and humanity would never progress or develop. It’s the Steve Jobs mentality: capitalism works because it grants “great,” “superior” men (and they are almost always men) the power and freedom to direct and command development and production of products and services. This mentality treats workers as incidental, or at least interchangeable. Workers are just there to pull levers and do as they are directed by the “great” entrepreneurs.
If Teslas are great cars, it’s because of the talented engineers and technicians who design and put them together. I’m not sure what Musk’s real contribution to Tesla’s success has been, if any at all. Maybe he is the incidental one. But a $56 billion pay package is not incidental. But, I suppose men like Musk believe that because they are “great” entrepreneurs, they deserve great compensation.
Everyone’s always talking about how Teslas are the best EVs, and while I don’t doubt that they’re great, if that’s the best that an EV can be, I don’t think I’ll be switching over. I don’t care about sports car comparable 0 to 60 times, and while I appreciate clean and minimal, Teslas are a little too minimal for my tastes.
I hate that Tesla started this trend of having a giant touchscreens in the center of the dash. Maybe some people really like that, I don’t. I mean, it’s nice to have a screen for navigation and a backup camera, but the relatively small screen in my wife’s Rav 4 does perfectly well for all that, and it still has physical switches for climate control, and the like, which I prefer.
Also, I think they are kind of boring looking, too. Overall, I’m just not sure what it is that supposedly makes them better than every other EV, really. Maybe it’s just a perception thing. But the biggest issue for me is Elon Musk, I associate him with the Tesla brand and he embodies everything I hate about capitalism.
Maybe the biggest problem with capitalism is how many, if not most, entrepreneurs become convinced that they’re the primary reason for a company’s success, like that their brilliance and effort alone made the company great, and without their leadership nothing would ever get produced, economies would never grow, and humanity would never progress or develop. It’s the Steve Jobs mentality: capitalism works because it grants “great,” “superior” men (and they are almost always men) the power and freedom to direct and command development and production of products and services. This mentality treats workers as incidental, or at least interchangeable. Workers are just there to pull levers and do as they are directed by the “great” entrepreneurs.
If Teslas are great cars, it’s because of the talented engineers and technicians who design and put them together. I’m not sure what Musk’s real contribution to Tesla’s success has been, if any at all. Maybe he is the incidental one. But a $56 billion pay package is not incidental. But, I suppose men like Musk believe that because they are “great” entrepreneurs, they deserve great compensation.
Megaprojects had a cool videos on Chinese EV’s.