Elon Musk is one of those people where hatred of or love for the person says far more about those doing the worshipping or the loathing than it does anything about Elon himself.

To me, he’s a dude that does some cool stuff sometimes and acts like a big baby half the time. I don’t love him or loathe him. He exists within the exploitative hypercapitalistic system we’ve allowed to fester here, so it’s not surprising he is mostly a product of that. Within that system, he’s better than others because he actually achieves real things in the world sometimes rather than just financial engineering.

I bet the primary animus by those who deeply hate him though is just anger that he does anything in the real world rather than fucking around with spreadsheets. That causes some true rage among the PMC type libs.