USA-Elon Musk and the Tesla files: a man who goes over corpses

Is Elon Musk a poor rich crazy, a drug addict, an eccentric, a storyteller or is he the greatest genius of our time? Insights into his biography show a split person.

Musk comes from an unfortunate, disputed, violent family home. He was teased and beaten up at school. Today he only knows victory or defeat, harassment at all costs. In terms of character, he seems to lie on a level with the US President Donald Trump, which he bought (from him), whom he has led to office with “more than $ 260 million”, as the authors write. A dependency on mutuality: two liars and high -stapler at the highest level.

These “Tesla files” are a stroke of luck for the Enlightenment. In November 2021, a whistleblower discovered incredible security gaps in the entire system of the group. He initially copied and saved gigantic material, then looked for contact with US authorities, data protection managers and also for US stock exchange supervision. He encountered lack of interest, thickness and ignorance. Power equipment like the Group of the richest man in the world is not tackled by state supervisory organs. This also symptoms for brittle democracy. Those who should protect them do not react and leave potentate to the field.

The Whistleblower Lukasz Krupski is looking for access to the press. He was one of many of the glowing advocates of the idea of ​​a “dream factory”, as Musk himself describes his company. The media fear the multimilliarist, who, like Trump, loves the “Hire & Fire” principle and has a lot of influence on executive floors. The Krupski, who lives in Norway, is finally interested in the German »Handelsblatt«. From May 2023, the newspaper published a series of articles that caused a sensation worldwide. The first text was already a direct hit, the heading: “The defect giant with the autopilot”.

With around 60 percent of all satellites surrounding our planet in orbit, Elon Musk can steer the world as he likes.

And now this deeper book. “We got an insight into how the richest man in the world rules his empire,” the journalists Sönke Iwersen and Michael write: “We learned that Musk is called by his bodyguards ‘travelers’ and by employees ‘n1’, the abbreviation for number 1. That he tends to lose himself in micromagement, and his employees are not as much as his employees Zorn. And we found that Musk complies with everything and everyone – even about rules he set up.

Above all: this man goes over corpses! Accidents with the self -control system, failing brakes and outbreaks of the chassis of its supermobile Tesla are piling up worldwide, including in Germany. No matter: mistakes are there to learn from it is his cynical slogan. Dead is collateral damage in this logic, but the group assumes no responsibility. Accidents continue to happen and the causes are covered up to avoid sanctions.

Investigative authorities, courts, police, public prosecutors and insurance companies are unsuspecting technical development, especially since the group is a “black box”, as Iwersen and Versonities report in their book. It is “a structure that is consistently designed to protect Musk’s vision from autonomous driving and at the same time shield critical information from third parties.” In the end, the sobering balance is: “Nobody understands Tesla how the vehicles of Elon Musk work. More than six million of them run on our streets worldwide. «

“I have no problem being hated,” said Musk in a public event. “Just too. Hate me, ”he said his audience. And added proudly: “I mean, that’s a real weakness. The need to be liked. A real weakness. And I don’t have it. ”At the same time, he suffers from the delusion of persecution. His lack of empathy is the result of his Asperger syndrome-a form of autism in which those affected often have difficulty interpreting emotional signals from their fellow human beings. Although Musk recognizes his deficits, he prefers to flirt with them than to apologize to those whom he wrongly does.

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If you read this report and the files of the whistleblower, you can think that the Empire of Elon Musk is a single house of cards that can collapse at any time – because there is a lot of hot air and chaos inside. A surprising knowledge of the richest man in the world. He is a chaot!

Why the two German investigative journalists from the »Handelsblatt« come to speak to top German politicians who roll out a red carpet for Musk in Berlin-Grünheide with a large brimborium remains their secret. When Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke did their attention in the new work in March 2022, it was known for a long time what was for inhumane conditions in the factories of Elon Musk in the USA. The authors speak of “toxic corporate culture at Tesla”, but international real policy goes over it and sets no limits to this hustle and bustle.

The book reads like a report in the tradition of Günter Wallraff, in passages like a crime report. A revelation story that lets you show up. A monstrous company gradually gets contours, brutal and inhumane employment relationships become clear. Only: What about Musk and its omnipotence, and yes, to align his violence?

At the end of the reading, disillusionment remains. Truth does not count, rules do not count, critical researchers are persecuted by all means, including legal violence, to silence them. As long as politics allows such structures (or even promoted), a man like Elon Musk will remain a serious threat to humanity. With around 60 percent of all satellites surrounding our planet in orbit, he can actually steer the world as he likes. High time for politics and judiciary to set barriers to this man.

Sönke Iwersen/Michael Object: The Tesla Files. Reveals from the realm of Elon Musk. Ch Beck, 246 pages, born, 26 €.