Elon Musk Named Honorary Texan Of The Year

[DallasCyberTruck]

Dallas Morning News: Elon Musk was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He sought and made his fortune in California’s Silicon Valley. But that doesn’t mean we can’t dub the 50-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO — and, after his recent stock sell-off, the world’s richest man — an honorary Texan.

Indeed, long before Musk announced in October that he was moving Tesla’s headquarters to Austin, he’d invested $1.1 billion on a new Tesla manufacturing plant in southeastern Travis County. He made Texas ground zero for his aerospace and rocket company, SpaceX, which has multiple facilities across the state and its flagship launch site in southern Texas near Boca Chica.

That’s all made national headlines, as have reports that Musk, who plans to move the headquarters of his private foundation, the Musk Foundation, to Austin, is currently living in a modest, $50,000 prefab house near the SpaceX launch site.

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[JJ_Tex]

Cool. I bet the award comes with free Whataburger and Buc-ee's for life.

 

[Cybertruckee]

#ApartheidElon, will right at home in Texas.

And maybe do Texans a favor before they die of freeze again this year. He should make good his proposal to electrify the whole of Texas. Read that Abbot still had not moved to require the electricity producer and distribution in Texas to winterize their system.

 

[Cybertruckee]

That’s all made national headlines, as have reports that Musk, who plans to move the headquarters of his private foundation, the Musk Foundation, to Austin, is currently living in a modest, $50,000 prefab house near the SpaceX launch site.

It's #ApartheidElon's dramatics. He actually live, or rent, a $12 million mansion.

 

[Crissa]

Can we stop slighting Elon for having the privilege of being white during apartheid, please? He didn't invent it, and his family fled for Canada.

Privilege is an important thing to know, to fix inequality. But it's completely irrelevant to the situation today of his wealth or policy preferences.

-Crissa

 

[Cybertruck Hawaii]

Elon Musk hasn’t even been in Texas for a full year. You should have to be in Texas for the full year in order to qualify for the award of Texan of the year.

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