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What If Elon Musk Succeeds?
如果伊隆·馬斯克成功了呢？
Tesla, SpaceX Founder Wants to Transform Technology—and Put Humans out of Work
特斯拉、太空探索技術公司創始人想轉型科技——使人類失業
By David H.Freedman
作者：大衛·H·弗里德曼
Elon Musk wants to save the planet, and in July that meant a boys' soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.
伊隆·馬斯克想拯救地球，今年7月這主要體現在，一支少年足球隊被困在泰國一個被洪水淹沒的洞穴里。
One diver had died on the treacherous route, and as monsoons approached and oxygen dwindled, time was running out.
一名潛水員在這條危險的路上已經喪命，氧氣越來越少，時間越來越緊迫。
Musk tweeted solutions—perhaps a nylon tube inflated like “a bouncy castle” could “create an air tunnel underwater.”
馬斯克在推特上發了救援策略——也許一根像“充氣城堡”的充氣尼龍管可以“在水下建造一個空氣隧道”。
The tech billionaire sent 10 engineers to Thailand;
這位科技億萬富翁向泰國派遣了10名工程師；
he traveled to the cave himself;
他親自去了那個洞穴；
he posted video of teams from SpaceX and the Boring Company (two of his businesses) developing a “tiny, kid-size submarine” and delivered the vessel to the scene.
并發了來自太空探索技術公司和挖洞公司（馬斯克公司中的兩家）的視頻，呈現了一艘“兒童大小的小型潛艇”，并將船送到了現場。
But the rescuers, rejecting the invention as impractical, developed a Musk-free plan to save all 12 boys and their coach.
但救援人員拒絕了這項發明，認為不切實際，并且制定了將馬斯克排除在外的救援計劃，旨在救出12名男孩和教練。
British diver Vern Unsworth, who played a key role in the rescue, dismissed the mogul's efforts as a “PR stunt,” telling CNN that Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts.”
在營救計劃中扮演關鍵角色的英國潛水員弗恩·昂斯沃思斥責這位大亨所做出的努力都是“公關秀”，并在CNN采訪時表明馬斯克可以“把潛艇用在挖的洞”。
Musk snapped.
馬斯克氣壞了。
He inexplicably called Unsworth a “pedo guy”—as in pedophile—and then doubled down amid a Twitter backlash.
他莫名其妙地稱昂斯沃思為“戀童癖”，之后推特的言論愈發激烈。
“Bet ya a signed dollar it's true,” he wrote, with no evidence.
“和你賭一個簽了字的美元這是真的，”他毫無根據地發推。
Musk later took back the unfounded accusation and apologized.
之后，馬斯克收回了毫無根據的指控并道歉。
But he's making a habit of being shocking.
但他已形成了語不驚人死不休的習慣。
Tuesday afternoon he tweeted that he was ready to take publicly held Telsa private, having secured funding that would buy back outstanding shares of stock at $420—a 15 percent premium over its then-price of $366.
周二下午，他在推特上表示他已經準備好將上市的特斯拉私有化，獲得融資后，將以420美元回購已發行股票——比當時366美元的價格高出15%。
The stock quickly climbed but trading had to be halted as everyone from investors to the SEC tried to figure out if the Tweet was a weed joke (given the 420 reference),
該股迅速上漲，但交易不得不暫停，因為從投資者到美國證交會的所有人都試圖弄清楚這條推特消息是否只是一個惡作劇（參考420的價格）。
a potentially illegal effort to manipulate stock price, or a genuine financial disclosure of unheard-of magnitude and form.
可能是操縱股價的潛在非法行為，或者以一種前所未有的規模和形式披露真實財務。
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