{"id":3888,"date":"2022-11-18T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:04:47","slug":"congratulations-elon-musk-and-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Elon Musk and Tesla!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA369.jpg\" alt=\"Congratulations, Elon Musk and Tesla!\" class=\"wp-image-3889\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA369.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA369-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure you&#8217;re all at least somewhat aware of the latest antics of the super-rich sideshow known as Elon Musk. As with all billionaire man-children (even the ones who are not in fact billionaires but overleveraged former presidents), I find it healthier to keep a distance \u2014 an awareness of the shenanigans without the details of the skulduggery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having grown up in Flint, I&#8217;m well aware of the consequences of very wealthy &#8220;captains of industry&#8221; making disastrous decisions. In the 1980s, the American automotive manufacturers were still in a very advantageous position. But they kind of pissed away a lot of it with, among other things, buying aerospace companies and slagging their workers instead of, you know, building better cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It struck me that Elon Musk is something of a modern-day version of that \u2014 all the stupidity and chuzpah but with exponentially more self-promotion. What a waste of resources. But I think you should know that I did show some restraint. I didn&#8217;t mention anything about his cars catching fire. (Of course that would have been more of a 1970s American automobile manufacturer thing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you&#8217;re all at least somewhat aware of the latest antics of the super-rich sideshow known as Elon Musk. As with all billionaire man-children (even the ones who are not in fact billionaires but overleveraged former presidents), I find it healthier to keep a distance \u2014 an awareness of the shenanigans without the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}