Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Is Elon Musk Today's Henry Ford?" video.

Billionaire Nick Hanauer in his August 2014 TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" included some very interesting FACTS about Henry Ford including how he paid his workers more than other companies did. That talk is still available here on YT. At 5:15 in that talk he says "So the model for us rich guys should be Henry Ford. When Ford famously introduced the $5 day, which was twice the prevailing wage at the time. He didn't just increase the productivity of his factories, he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor into a thriving middle class who could now afford to buy the products that they made." FYI - I am an aerospace engineer who has worked in the automotive sector. Elon Musk deserves some credit for slapping BOTH the aerospace and automotive sectors which had become stagnant and both of those industries NEEDED to be disrupted. Without his disruption I doubt (having seen the auto industry in action) would have started pushing EVs as they are all doing. I know that without SpaceX that Space flight would be far worse off because there WOULD NOT be the Falcon Rockets. HOWEVER that does not excuse his idiotic behavior or ridiculous claims about things like driverless cars or colonising Mars or the even more dangerous Neuralink nonsense. Despite the success of the Falcon rockets Starship is almost doomed to be a monumental failure due to its size and complexity. Plus the launch facility in Texas shows they are way too comfortable cutting corners on fundamental safety. They were lucky not to lose the entire site at the last launch. The FAA should have yanked their license to operate. As for colonising Mars I attended a guest lecture in 1987 as an undergraduate that was given by a NASA Engineer who'd just done a project on what it would take to colonise Mars. We were all fairly stunned to find out just how impossible of a task it would be without God like powers. Over 30 years later I am yet to see anyone prove they have developed any of the basic life support technologies that would be needed or the means to get there in any sort of a reasonable time period.
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@starshake8998 I keep a link to that Nick Hanauer video because I quote from it all the time. Its the sort of talk that needs being repeated. How many times have you heard over recent decades that labor costs were too high to manufacture things? Its garbage and always was. Inefficient use of labor like inefficient use of anything is a problem, but then trying to tell economists they're wrong is like trying to tell a 2 year old they can't have a cookie.
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@maxpowers123 I'm SORRY I didn't realise we were including IGNORANT M0R0NS today. So let me explain some things. FIRST - I am an aerospace engineer and during my final semester we had a guest lecturer one Friday who worked for NASA and had just completed a study for NASA on the what it would take to terraform Mars. He told us some blunt truths that aren't in the science fiction books. This is one of the basics - How much air would you need for a 1km thick Earth Compatible atmosphere? The surface of Mars is 144,370,000 km² and that means the volume of a 1km thick layer of air has a volume very close to 144,370,000 km³. For a planet its within 1%. A cubic meter of standard Earth air weighs 1.2kg. and there's 1,000,000,000m³ in each 1 km³ In metric tons that 1,200,000 tons of air per km³ and you need 144,370,000 of them. So when you can explain where Elon is going to find 173 TRILLION TONS of air then you might be considered something other than a M0R0N. AND THAT'S BEFORE we work out how to hold that much air to a planet with only 1/9th the mass of Earth. AND THAT'S BEFORE Elon magically explains how they will make any of the basic cycles start working. Like a water cycle, an oxygen cycle, a nitrogen cycle and a carbon dioxide cycle. AND THEN THERE'S that slight problem that Mars doesn't have a magnetic field strong enough to stop the sun stripping away that atmosphere. So you also need to spin up the molten core of the planet. Now if you'd like I can also explain why Jeff Bezos is also full of SHlT for his claims about space industries.
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