Comment Re:dude (Score 2, Interesting) 352
Globalization honey! Elon has plants in Germany, China, is opening possibly in South America, is opening a plant in Mexico. He also has cornered the satellite broadband market (worldwide, as seen in Ukraine), and many other core industries. Now owns the post powerful media asset in the world (X) which is becoming a new "Facetime" too, and a vast trove of content for the AI era, for which he has now founded his new kind of "OpenAI 2.0", then top with Human-Machine interfaces/cyborg tech (NeuraLink), and the absolute dominance in Space exploration, that the idea that this is "Elon's Empire and his good luck" is risible. GM and Ford, for example, are having more trouble with transitioning given they extremely stupid commercial models, unions, their extremely stupid enormous part suppliers, and other internal issues (like Ford funding one of the wokest of the wokest idiotic NGOs) just shows them, and GM (who receive immense subsidies after the 2009 crisis) means it may well prove that they may never be competitive, subsidy or not.