Elon Musk: Environmental Consultants Won’t Feed You on a Desert Island—We Need Real Builders

Elon Musk: Environmental consultants wouldn't help you survive on a desert island.

Tucker Carlson: “It does seem like the engineers are not getting rich, but the environmental consultants, the climate consultants, the DEI consultants.

A whole consultant class seems to be getting richer by the year, where people with actual skills—the ones that bring actual progress [don't].”

Elon: “[Yes, those who do] useful things, products and services that you can use. If you were traveling to a desert island, you'd want those people, but you wouldn't want environmental consultants. You're going to starve.

Who are actual builders that get things done?

Every year we're making it harder in America for actual builders to get things done.

We're in this weird Ayn Rand ‘Atlas Shrugged’ scenario where there's yet another regulation, yet another rule. There's that phrase in ‘Atlas Shrugged’: Oh, you'll manage. Eventually you can't get anything done.”

Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 7, 2024