I Wrote A Letter to Elon Musk in 2021
Years Ago A College Prof. Assigned A Letter to a Billionaire
David Lammers
A Letter to Elon Musk
JOUR 4259 (001)
12/10/21
Dear Elon,
You hold so much power, and society agrees. 56% of people believe that business leaders have a greater responsibility to speak out on hotly debated issues.
In a recent poll you accumulated close to 4,000,000 votes. That’s a lot of people! To reach as many people as you did with that Tweet it would cost $3,800,000 at a standard $.0.97/ click.
With great power comes great responsibility, and I feel that you need to be responsible for more. When you look at the Wicked 7 issues we can see that you don’t progress any of the issues with your personal or corporate brands. In fact, you contribute to and create issues surrounding War, Climate Collapse, and Corruption.
You created an illegal coup in Bolivia to gain the right to their Lithium supply. When you were asked about the political revolution, you replied “We will coup whoever we want.” Statements like these show that you are adding to the Wicked 7 issues. Corruption and War are apparent. But, if you own the most popular electric vehicle brand, how are you contributing to climate collapse? I’m sure you already know the answer to that question, maybe you’re wondering which example I might use.
As I’m sure you already know, electric vehicle demand for lithium will surpass the supply of all lithium by 2025. This is a shame because not only will we be reverting back to oil when this happens, but now we will have most if not all of our lithium supply in hard to recycle electric vehicle batteries. This would be bad news for the electronics industry.
But, this would be even worse news for the tens of millions of Americans that suffer from depression and other mental health disorders. Recent medical studies have shown that lithium is a great treatment for bi-polar and depression. In fact, it’s approved by the FDA and millions of Americans are currently taking it to prevent their bi-polar and depression. The rising lithium costs are only going to make it harder for people with mental health disorders to get the treatment they need, and we already know how hard it is to get affordable drugs to consumers in America.
Securing the world's least expensive and most convenient supply of lithium to put it all into car batteries seems against everything good. Even you have said yourself that cars are going to be obsolete in about 20 years.
Unless this is a master plan to cure depression with all of your lithium and make retail investors rich in the meantime I think what you’re doing is pretty fucked up; all while keeping a straight face under your mask.
What are the Wicked 7?
I wrote this as a college student. While organizing computer files, “A Letter To Elon Musk” caught my eye, so I figured it might catch yours, too.
This isn’t what I traditionally write about. but I wanted to share it.