Elon Musk has always been an outside-the-box thinker when it comes to his projects. Although, they don't always pan out smoothly, and some would argue that some of them are bad ideas. His latest scheme appears to be building his own town.
Musk's 'Texas Utopia'
The Tesla CEO is planning to build his own town called "Snailbook," which is the name of the Boring Company's mascot, a company Musk also founded. It will be built just outside Austin, Texas along the Colorado River.
The tech billionaire intends to create a "Texas Utopia" where his employees from Boring Company, SpaceX, and Tesla can live and work, as mentioned in Futurism. In this scenario, his employees would have all that they need inside the town and won't have to leave.
In fact, he even has Kanye West, who has been painted in a very bad light recently, consulting on the design of the town he plans to build, along with his ex-girlfriend Claire Boucher Grimes. It would be hard to imagine what the trio could come up with.
Boring Company executives have already been working on the town's connection with Bastrop County, which is where SpaceX and Boring Company facilities are already being built 35 miles out of Austin, reports say.
Musk's associates have already acquired land in the area which totals around 3,500 acres for the past three years. There are street names that have already been approved by Bastrop County officials such as "Boring Boulevard," "Waterjet Way," and "Cutterhead Crossing."
Computer engineer Chap Ambrose, who lives in an area overlooking the Boring and SpaceX facilities being built, said that they want the project to be a secret and that they want to do things before people would even know what's happening.
Ambosed expressed his concern about how the factories being built for Musk's company can affect the local era's water resources. Local farmer David Barrow also mentioned that he wanted to know what was being sprayed and who will hold them accountable.
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Can Musk Actually Do It?
The possibility of the town being built cannot be easily dismissed. After all, Musk tends to go through with his ideas once he sets his mind to them. Just take Twitter for example, although he did back out before actually buying it.
However, the way he's running Twitter can also be an example of why the town could be a nightmare for his employees. The social media platform's staff have been to resign just to get away from the workplace environment set by the Twitter CEO.
Even though Musk is an advocate when it comes to "free speech," especially for Twitter, his also not known for his capacity to accept criticism. He can do something as petty as fire an employee for saying something he doesn't want to hear.
For instance, he fired one of his top engineers for simply explaining why he had low engagements on Twitter. Of course, Elon Musk said it was ridiculous, as mentioned in The Verge, and coped with disappointment by giving the engineer the boot.
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