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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Nobel laureate professor of economics: “Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.

OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don’t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving — though not fully self-driving — taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google’s Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.

Yet at various points over the past decade Elon Musk promised that each of these services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.

Granted, Musk has had some real successes. Tesla was ahead of the EV curve, and Starlink is a critically important service as well as a viable business.

But these achievements weren’t enough to make Musk the world’s richest man. His wealth has, instead, historically rested mainly on self-fulfilling faith — investors believing in Musk’s genius have piled into stocks in Musk-controlled companies, and the rising value of these companies has enhanced his reputation for genius.

We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.

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w2u0b2b5.bsky.social @w2u0b2b5.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

But he's white,male, has a stable of brood mares to impregnate which is cool and really really believes in his ideas! Why wouldn't all the rest of us white males trust him with all our citizen's hard earned tax payer money...no skin off our nose!

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Paul Davidson @elementalpaul.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This website tracks the number of days since Mr Musk has made many of his ridiculous proclamations. elonmusk.today

elonmusk.today

Yes, this is a thing Elon Musk really claimed.

Elon Musk Today: The future ain't what it used to be! | social preview artwork by trish@omerta22PL 2019

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