Elon Musk claims there are ‘far more’ smart, hardworking people in China than in the US

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1. “The sheer number of really smart, hardworking people in China is incredible,” Musk said during a 2023 interview with podcaster Lex Fridman.

   “How many smart, hardworking people are there in China? There’s far more of them there than there are here,
   I think, in my opinion, and they’ve got a lot of energy.”

   The architecture in China that’s in recent years is far more impressive than the U.S.

   I mean the train stations, the buildings, the high-speed rail, everything, it’s really far more impressive than what we have in the U.S.,” he noted. “I recommend somebody just go to Shanghai and Beijing, look at the buildings, and go take the train from Beijing to Xi’An, where you have the terracotta warriors.”

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   But..but..far right extremists libertarians tech bros insist that China’s evil….🤑

   And..and…far right extremists republikans thieves want to add ‘Chinese ‘ tariffs to everything….

2. You only work hard when you are broke. Muskrat has never been broke or worked hard. STFU whiney bitch.

3. I mean, statistically yea.

   But Elon sure seems like he hates America, despite how much he’s personally profited from us

4. Maybe he should go fuk up over there. Screw this asshat. I hate the fact that this fuker will be in the news cycle for decades to come. He will only get worse, just like Trump.

5. There are 4x more people in China than the US. Obviously, there are more smart, hardworking people in China than the US, unless someone is silly enough to believe the average Chinese is only 1/4th as hardworking or smart as the average American.

6. You know what they say. If you are 1 in a million, there are a thousand people like you in China

7. I’ve been making this point forever. China has 4x our population and is just as smart and hardworking as we are. China tries to collaborate with us a lot more than we try to collaborate with them. And that’s a missed opportunity for us.

8. China has more than four times as many people so he could be right. The US is dwarfed by China and India and both have intensely competitive educational systems.

9. Cool, have fun in China.

10. not a significant insight for someone that claims to highly value freedom of speech. smarter than me but a huge hypocrite.

11. Oh yeah this will not sell Tesla’s in the US, but in china it will

12. “I’m a Marxist because I am a capitalist and Marx wrote Kapital, so Marx was a capitalist too.” – Elon Musk (paraphrased)

13. Ask him where he would want his pacemaker built from.

14. Maybe he should move to china and exploit the smart people there heh

15. He’s not wrong.

    There’s a reason why there’s 100% tarifs on Chinese cars.

16. He also praised Chinese labor laws in the past. He likes China more because they can work people to the bone in sweat shops.

17. Then why isn’t he thete?

18. It’s true, the whole East Asia: HK, SG, TW, JP, SK, and China.

19. Quantity of smart people or density of smart people? Not really clear.

20. He means slaves.

21. What He really means is, they work for peanuts and work long hours till they suicide themselves. To make people like him wealthier.

22. Cue the “I don’t care what’s true, it hurts my feelings! So fuck this guy!” Crowd

    When American needs more of the “I hate that this is right, let’s fkn do better and change this” crowd

    Then there are the complete idiots that are like “BUH THEY HAB BILLION PEOPLE”, not realizing that the statement was made with proportions in mind, if US had a billion people, China would still be far ahead, because it’s not part of culture to shit on criticism, but to try to rise above it