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Latest Interview of Elon Musk! The Destructiveness of DEI. · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and free speech is what allows atrocities
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  to be called out and for people to be aware of them. That's why
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  the Germans wanted to shut down the price immediately. So you know, anyway,
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  I think we should do everything we can to preserve free speech, and
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  when we lose free speech, I think we lose democracy. One of the
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  other things we were talking about earlier to touch back on it was the DEI
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  of it, and one of the things that you know, you and I
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  had been discussing a little bit offline is the fact that di I effectively is
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  a conspiracy theory in which there is a cadre of powerful people who are at
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  the top and they control everything else that's happening. And because those powerful people
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  are at the top, they are exploiting everybody else and they have to be
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  taken down more than one peg. And you know that conspiracy theory matches very
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  aligns very closely with anti Semitic conspiracy theory. I think the CI is very
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  extremely anti Semitic. It's cool, so yeah, absolutely, uh, And
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  it's just it's just generally anti meritocratic, so which I think is very dangerous.
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  You want to have a I think society where you succeed based on your
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  skills and hard work. That's it. And it doesn't matter about your race,
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  gender, creed, religion, nothing, you know, just are you
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  good at your job, do you work hard? Are you do you have
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  high integrity? Nothing will that's it stops there. And it seems it seems
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  as though, you know, in our society right now, there's an objection
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  to that. But that objection, it seems to me, can only be
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  this crazy. Yeah, it can only be sustained if you are tastically acknowledging
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  that you will not succeed in the meritocracy. The people who are pushing this
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  the hardest yet frankly, yeah, I mean it's it's it's essentially making the
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  argument I'm not succeeding. The reason I'm not succeeding is because no one can
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  succeed. And so it's an argument to a certain extent of the unsuccessful or
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  people who feel as though they are they deserve more. And you know,
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  one of the one of the things that occurs to me is that I'm not
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  sure that anybody quote unquote deserves anything other than what your hard work and innovation
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  bring you in life. Right. I think the EI also for those who
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  were promoted based on these skills and merit and hard work, it undermines the
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  credibility of their promotion or their status. Was it real or was it the
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  EI? You know, and it's it takes away the respect that they deserve.
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  One of the things about meritocracy that I think people forget is that it's
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  the only system ever devised that has positive externalities. Any other sort of system
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  that you create is going to have negative externalities because you're literally just cronying with
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  X group and whatever that group is, that group is going to get the
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  benefits, and if you're not part of that group, then you get screwed.
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  And meritocracy is the idea that the people who are going to succeed are
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  people who innately are capable of creating for everyone else. I mean, you
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  mentioned earlier how many employees you have, and people will talk about your level
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  of personal wealth, but that level of personal wealth is largely stockholding, and
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  that stock is it was almost entirely stock. Yeah, exactly. I mean
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  it's like you're sitting on like a giant It's I mean, you are,
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  but not like that. Yeah, it's just it's just when I created the
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  companies, I felt that it was important. Now, in my first company,
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  I didn't have any money. My first Internet company, I just had
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  one hundred thousand, all the student debt. But for that was a company
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  the very early days of the Internet called zip too, but for old companies.
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  Subsequently, I basically doubled down. I took the money that from from
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  Zip to invested it in x dot com PayPal, and then I took the
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  PayPal money invested that in in creating Teslin SpaceX. Because I didn't feel like
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  I didn't feel right that I should ask investors to invest if I wasn't prepared
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  to invest my own money. I think the whole other people's money thing is
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  not right. You know, you want to you want to have you want
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  to have skin the and put your capital where you're off the capital of the
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  company you're creating therewith investors capital. And as a result of that, I
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  own a lot of shares in the company, and the company as the better
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  the company does, the more valuable the shares are. But that's because the
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  pie has grown, and so you have to say, like, what's that.
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  The root of a lot of the the negativity is an axiomatic flaw that
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  the pie is static, that it's a zero sum game, that if someone
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  else succeeds, it's because they took more than their fair share of this fixed
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  pie. But it's not a fixed pie. Obviously, the there's a lot
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  of that wants a pie pie. But obviously the economic pie has grown considerably
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  from from what it was in the past. The output of goodness of so
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  as the productivity per person is dramatically greater than it has been in the past.
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  So when you when you create a new company and you and you both
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  create new products and services, you are you are growing the groups, You're
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  growing the you know, the bundle as they say pie again, of you're
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  growing the amount of goods and services available to two people. So it's not
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  you've not taken anything away from anyone. You've created something new and you've you've
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  given people new products and services they didn't have before. You know, like
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  we didn't used to have an iPhone, We didn't used to have computers,
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  when you used to have cars or be able to fly in our planes,
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  wouldn't used to have many of the life saving medicines that we have today.
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  and spice. This is one of the I think there's the fundamental distinction between
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  innovators and business people and people in the free market and the political class.
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  The political class operates almost solely on the basis that the pie is fixed,
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  because if the pie is fixed, then the way that you get elected is
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  by promising more of that pie to such and such a person, or you
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  promise that by seizing money from the private sector, you're personally going to grow
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  the pie. And it seems to me if the first mark of a politician
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  you shouldn't listen to is I can fix all of your problems, and that
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  basically rolls out nearly everybody, because it seems like everyone in the political classes
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  into the I can fix all of your problems when it seems like what I
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  actually need is people who are entrepreneurial and innovative to solve this problem in front
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  of um. Means that we can then move on to the next problem that's
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  in front of them. Yeah, basically, the reality is that when that
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  is that the government is really just a corporation in the limit, government is
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  the ultimate corporation. It's not different from a corporation. It's just the ultimate
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  corporation. And it's a corporation that is monopoly. And and also it can't
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  go bankrupt unless the country goes bankrupt, and it has a monopoly on violence.
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  So how much do you want to how much more do you want to
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  give to the world's biggest corporations that it has a monopoly in violence? Probably
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  not, probably less. And I mean I feel like it's said countries like
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  East and West Germany or North and South Korea, cases where there's just an
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  oboritrary line that's been drawn. They could to be one country arbitrary line is
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  drawn because of a war. What is the productivity difference from one to the
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  other. You know, West Germany had a productivity five times greater than the
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  East Germany. Uh that that's just because and it's not like West Germany was
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  just the sort of bastion of capitalism. They're like half socialist. So even
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  with if you're so, what that means is if they have socialists on the
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  other side is one hundredent socialist communist, then you really have something like a
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  ten to one difference in productivity if something is done by the government or done
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  by the private sector. That's why you But I'm not someone who says abolish
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  the government. I just say let's have the government do the least amount,
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  because the less the government does, the more the economy will prosper, because
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  anything done by the government is going to be five timetime five to ten times
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  less efficient. But like think of the d MB, I'm trying not to
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  Yes, if we're going to get out of DEI, what's the best way
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  to get out of DEI? Well, I think DI is starting to fade.
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  First of all, d I is actually illegal because it discriminates on the
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  basis of race, sex, sexual preference and all other things that is actually
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  illegal. So somehow you know it's gone. They've managed to get this illegal
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  thing in place. But now we're starting you see a large number of lawsuits
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  saying no, actually, the law says you cannot discriminate on the basis of
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  sex as you know, sexual identity and race. You know. So I
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  think, well, I think the I is on this last legs is gonna
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  it's gonna be a roup because it's illegal. Actually,