ATC Total Overhaul

[AKiss20]

Yours is the simple world if you believe that temporary possession of wealth alone is the relevant measurement. Any "idiot" (to borrow your word) can inherit wealth, or have wealth dropped on them via other seemingly random circumstances. They may even manage to hold on to some of it for a while.

Having the pile of wealth isn't the measure; building it is.

It's your simple view that would equate a dilettante heiress who is beneficiary of a fortune she didn't earn with an entrepreneur who manufactured a product or service most could scarcely conceive of much less achieve, then created the system to produce it and deliver it to others, with those others having found such value in those products or services that they freely traded their own wealth in exchange, over and over again. And then did so several times over in many different domains, to the point that the entrepreneur had amassed the greatest private fortune known on the planet.

To quote the fictional Cole Trickle "If you think it was luck, I'll go do it again."

Not to mention how simple it is to assume -- in the face of ample, even mountainous evidence to the contrary -- that someone who doesn't share your particular political priorities must be mentally defective, i.e., an "idiot".

First of all, I called the 22 year old vibe coders “idiots”, not your idol. There is a mountain of evidence that they, in fact, are. See the incredibly stupid security practices, or lack thereof, that resulted in their own .gov website being hacked and defaced within days of going live [1], to the whistleblower report of them being incredibly careless with highly sensitive data they shouldn’t have been accessing in the first place. [2] Those actions more than merit the label “idiot” in my mind.

But since you bring it up, there’s also plenty of evidence that Musk really doesn’t know nearly as much as he claims to. How about the time he proposed a useless submarine to save those Thai children? [3] or when he got shut down publicly by his own engineers at Twitter [4]? Or his massive overpromises such as the timeline of FSD at Tesla [5] and Falcon 9 Heavy at SpaceX, which he himself admits he was “naive” about the complexity (when hosts of people with experience were saying it was) [6]. The people who feel the need to boast the loudest about their intelligence are rarely ones who are gifted with a great deal of it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website-database-security-open

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355895/doge-musk-nlrb-takeaways-security

[3] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/6293...er-exchange-harsh-words-over-thai-cave-rescue

[4]

Twitter engineer calls out Musk for technical incompetence

Bro do u even GraphQL?

www.theregister.com

[5]

Elon Musk reveals Elon Musk was wrong about Full Self-Driving | TechCrunch

For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest

techcrunch.com

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/science/falcon-heavy-spacex-elon-musk.html

 

[Tarheelpilot]

I’ll be impressed when we get a full text and organized METAR and eliminate the 8 byte constrained short text we get now. Or an intelligently organized Notam. Or a real back up to GPS (I swear it’s just a rumor that there are any working VORs left).

I tune them all the time to backup my position. All of my FO’s under the age of 30 look at me kinda funny. I’ve always been able to find enough still working to get a position fix. At least domestically I can.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

What does a total overhaul of the ATC system look like?

I did not know.
Thankfully, the internet provided an intelligent & concise explanation.