— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) December 24, 2021
I’m not an Elon Musk fanboy, but I mostly agree with this.
If 99.9999% of the Musk-hater’s parents had owned an emerald mine, they’d be the same sad pathetic lumps they are now, carping about people smarter and better than them doing useful projects. Musk was off in Russia buying gray-market rocket engines and shit, in an effort that absolutely everyone was sure was doomed to failure, to start SpaceX.
Without Tesla, EVs in the US would be 15 years behind where they are now.
Musk is also an utter prat, arrogant, and wrong about half of the things he says. No one should as rich as he is. But to claim that his projects just happen by accident — well, that’s just insane. It’s deranged, and it’s deranged in a way that only those who’ve never been part of a large, complex undertaking can possibly believe.
By the way, saying that “other people do the all the work at his companies” as some kind of insult. What the hell? Of fucking course. He’s the CEO. This isn’t Stark Industries; he’s not Tony Stark talking to some robot and building stuff all day by hand. Y’all watched too many movies. And are dumb as a box of rocks.