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... And honestly I don't feel that comfortable with Musks billioniare powered movement of leading the future market of carproduction, storage, solar and computertechnology...
Tesla is on the way to becoming a very large company, possibly one of the biggest, but it doesn't want to rule the world.
Elon Musk is simply going "all in" and modernizing a few sustainability industries that needed a "kick in the pants."
"Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy." The logistics of roofing, for example, were very inefficient -- heavy products, with poor distribution channels. And why not make a roof that does more than protect your house -- it lowers your carbon footprint at the same time? Other companies make solar roofs; the idea just needs some tweaking to become The Next Big Thing.
The first electric car was made almost two centuries ago! But it took someone like Musk, willing to risk everything to prove there was an alternative to the fossil fuel path we decided to embrace. He
wants competition. (See the mission statement above.) The award-winning Tesla cars, and 400,000 paid reservations for the affordable Model 3, were, without a doubt, a major force in getting traditionally gas-powered-car makers to
finally acknowledge people would indeed buy electric cars, and so they grudgingly began making (or announced they’ll be making) products that for so long they claimed were laughable and nobody wanted.
And his interest in Artificial Intelligence is to assure it does
not stay in the hands of a few, thus his "Open AI."
Besides, Musk hates being called a billionaire.
He could have retired to an island somewhere long ago, but he loves what he is doing. The only reason he continues to accumulate personal wealth, he says, is to assure his other goal, of making humanity multi-planetary, succeeds. He wants to die on Mars (just not on impact
), so he won't be around forever....
I know these few words won't magically change your mind about Musk. But I hope they help to ease your worries a bit.