Distributing wealth and income can be dealt with by voting in a government with that as it's policy.
That purpose was money.
In the current climate (...), the term no longer serves its purpose.
Musk has caused generational toxicity to the Tesla brand. But it'll carry on as a store of excitable wealth for techbros and a meme stock for "temporarily embarrassed" billionaires for the foreseeable.
578_Observer•1mo ago
From a systems perspective, Musk didn't just become a "villain"; he simply removed the *Cooling System* to overclock the engine. "Sustainability" acts as a heat sink. It dissipates the entropy generated by rapid scaling.
Here in Japan, we have "Shinise" (companies lasting >1000 years). Their OS is designed for *"Thermal Management"* rather than maximum clock speed. They prioritize "Cooling" (Rei/Gratitude/Maintenance) over "Heating" (Infinite Growth).
Musk just dismantled the radiator to squeeze out 1% more speed. We are no longer watching a business strategy; we are observing a machine entering pure *Thermal Runaway*.
(Edit: Thinking about it further, this also signals a shift in Tesla's OS. The mission "to accelerate sustainable energy" was a powerful heuristic to gather talent when they were the underdog. Now that dominance is achieved, "Sustainability" is no longer a fuel but a constraint on "Scale or Die." He didn't just become a villain; he simply optimized the algorithm for the post-growth phase.)
salawat•1mo ago
bdangubic•1mo ago
This is why he can get $50 trillion pay package if he wants, the Board knows once he’s gone the fantasy he’s selling gone with him along with all the (insane) investor money
578_Observer•1mo ago
Musk's genius wasn't just engineering cars; it was engineering the market's latency. He successfully pushed the "runtime error" (reality) further into the future, trading on pure speculation.
In the Shinise (1000-year company) philosophy, this gap between "Reputation" and "Reality" is considered the most dangerous vulnerability. They call it "Kyomei" (Empty Name).
If your reputation scales faster than your actual codebase, you aren't growing—you're just buffering a crash. The board knows the buffer is full.
Zigurd•1mo ago
Absurdity is everywhere. The Tesla P/E ratio seems like a quibble compared to the really frothy part of the AI economy. Building new nuclear reactors, which takes 20 years, isn't going to power all the chips already waiting to be powered up. The response to that fact is to proposed to shoot it into space.
578_Observer•1mo ago
While financial debt (like Tesla's valuation) can be hidden by printing money, "Energy Debt" cannot be hidden. Physics doesn't accept IOUs.
The proposal to launch servers into space is just a desperate search for a bigger heat sink because the terrestrial system is in thermal runaway.
Shinise wisdom teaches that if you cannot sustain the energy cost, you don't seek a new planet—you fix the inefficiency of the process. We are trying to overclock a planet that has no more cooling capacity.
salawat•1mo ago
578_Observer•1mo ago
However, huge systems (countries) never change from the center. They change from the "Edge".
In biology and history, evolution always starts as a small "mutation" or "anomaly" that the main system initially rejects. If your country is 100% "Scale or Die," then a small business or community running on "Sustain" logic becomes a precious "Mutation."
You don't need to update the whole country's OS. You just need to run a small "Local Server" of this philosophy. Eventually, when the main system overheats, people will look for your server to cool down.
578_Observer•1mo ago
You nailed the core issue: the "cult of personality." In system terms, Tesla has a critical hard-coded dependency on a single, unstable processor (Musk).
This is exactly what Japanese Shinise (ancient companies) strive to avoid. They prioritize the "Code" (Kahun/House Precepts) over the "Captain." The CEO is just a temporary runtime instance, but the OS must run forever.
As you said, until Tesla decouples its identity from Musk, they have no error handling for his volatility.