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Elon Musk on Optimus:
"We've started early production. The growth of Optimus is an S curve, but the initial curve is a shallow slope. We have the vast majority of the 1 million unit/year line installed at Fremont. There's still some things we need to tweak about the design. There's still quite a lot of work to do with the AI in the robot. I would expect that the AI, the electromechanical design, reliability, usage life, expect these issues to be solved by the end of next year. I remain convinced Optimus will be the biggest product on Earth. I do want to temper expectations that we still have a lot to get through, it will take about a year to get through that."
Watch this clip carefully. The script is always the same: Elon is "dumb," Elon is "lucky," and Bill Gates is the good billionaire because he gives his money away.
Let's talk about that.
Bill Gates didn't give his fortune away. He converted it into control.
Over $100B spent since 2000, another $200B by 2045.
Where does it go? Into Gavi, the Global Fund, the WHO, health ministries, policy shops, media partnerships. Into the state, and into the institutions that orbit the state. Gates found the ultimate hack: you don't need to win elections when you finance the people who write the agenda. One private man at the center of global health policy, accountable to no voter, ever.
And what does all that money produce? Maintenance.
Gates is a man maintaining a photograph. The world as it is, framed, preserved, retouched a little every year. Some of it saves lives, and that's good. But not one new industry. Not one order-of-magnitude drop in the cost of anything. No growth. The same world, administered more politely.
That's what this kind of philanthropy buys: the perfection of goodness, not the reality of goodness. The galas, the annual letters, the glowing coverage, the moral immunity. Goodness as a brand.
Now look at the other model.
SpaceX cut the cost of reaching orbit by more than 10x. Starlink brought internet to places no government ever bothered to wire, and kept Ukraine online when the war hit. Tesla forced the entire auto industry to go electric when every incumbent said it couldn't be done. Neuralink patients with paralysis are controlling computers with their thoughts.
None of that was a donation. All of it was creation. Products people pay for, which fund the next thing, which compounds. That's real philanthropy: building things that make the whole pie bigger, permanently.
A donation ends when the money runs out. A company that bends the cost curve of civilization keeps giving forever.
Hard to understand when your entire career depends on the redistribution machine.
So here's why they're panicking, A+B.
A. Their power rests on one thing: controlling the allocation of other people's money. Budgets, agencies, grants, foundations, NGOs. Whoever controls the flow controls the country.
B. Builders prove, publicly and at scale, that creation beats redistribution. A rocket company did what decades of space budgets couldn't. A car company did what decades of climate summits couldn't.
A + B: if growth does more good than the state, the people who manage the state become optional. That's the threat. Not Elon's politics. Elon's results.
They can't attack the results, so they attack the man. "Dumb." "Lucky." When someone lands reusable rockets and the best you've got is that he got lucky, you're not making an argument. You're confessing you don't have one.
History will judge this period very harshly. The lies, the manipulation, the coordinated narratives repeated word for word across every network. It's all archived now. Every clip. Every quote.
You've already lost. You just don't know it yet.
The builders won the moment they proved the future can be built instead of managed.
🚨 BREAKING: Democrats are lining up to call Elon Musk dumb, and it's the most embarrassing thing you'll see today.
One called him "one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met." Another said he's "one of the dumbest, luckiest people."
Lucky? SpaceX and Tesla were
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