[HN Gopher] The Resurgence of Tesla Syndrome
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       The Resurgence of Tesla Syndrome
        
       Author : jamesdco
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-08-01 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mycpuorg wrote:
       | "... Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Elizabeth Holmes..." LOL wut?
       | 
       | Go home professor, you are drunk :D
        
       | rch wrote:
       | Sorry, but is Elizabeth Holmes the best example here?
        
         | mountainriver wrote:
         | Lol yeah that was odd
        
         | mikkergp wrote:
         | I chuckled at that, I assume that was intentional to prove a
         | point but it shows a bias through the whole thing. Seems like a
         | socialist advertisment.
         | 
         | edit: Just because I like coffee doesn't mean I can't recognize
         | a coffee advertisement.
        
           | millerm wrote:
           | I immediately stopped reading after I saw her name, because
           | it gave me the sense that the well was poisoned and not worth
           | my time.
        
         | pitched wrote:
         | The article was arguing against individualistic innovation
         | through disruption, in favour of a collectivist innovation
         | through collaboration. So Elizabeth Holmes was the perfect
         | example to feed into that argument.
        
           | neither_color wrote:
           | I had to swipe back and check the comments so unless their
           | intention is to filter for people who already think all three
           | are evil it's a huge distraction. I think it was a poor
           | choice for the author because Musk and Bezos might under-
           | deliver or deliver late sometimes, but they are not outright
           | convicted frauds with a tendency to lie pathologically, and
           | using that name kind of poisons the well that Bezos and Musk
           | are in no? Holmes can't really be considered an innovator or
           | inventor of any kind.
        
       | leobg wrote:
       | Could be from The Fountainhead. As an article written by
       | Ellsworth Toohey.
       | 
       | It's also a game of mere words. The author claims that Tesla, the
       | company, was about "disruption". Then, he contrasts this to true
       | innovation, which, according to the author, is collective in
       | nature. This is already a questionable claim (Lilienthal was
       | laughed at when he built his first flying machines). But it also
       | completely misses the purpose of the founding of Tesla. Which is
       | the acceleration of the advent of sustainable energy consumption
       | and production. How much more focused on the good of humanity as
       | a collective can you get? (Let's not even talk about SpaceX.)
       | 
       | That the author lists Elon Musk in the same sentence as Elizabeth
       | Holmes, and does so without any qualification, to me, is
       | testament to the fact that the author isn't really seeking to
       | understand anything and is merely going for clicks. Which is a
       | pity, because the question of vanishing trust in institutions
       | would have been a worthwhile topic.
        
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