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Sorry, Musk is a CEO. He's not building the cars. He's not planning the orbital trajectories of SpaceX rockets. He's hired competent people to do that for him. And those competent people have even said that Musk basically needs a full-time babysitter at SpaceX so he doesn't mess up anything.

He got lucky in the 90s and has been riding that high ever since, buying Founder titles, and paying people to do the hard work for him.

Outside of that, I personally cannot support someone who named their children like Xbox usernames.



Elon makes a bit more sense when you see he has deep connections with the CIA.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career


Exactly. SpaceX is just a public defense contractor a la Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. Yeah, SpaceX may one day send you to Mars or fly you across the world in 30 minutes. But it's main revenue generator will always be the US government, whether that's sending astronauts to space stations or launching military satellites.

Elon is not here to save humanity or whatever BS he's trying to peddle to the world this time around. He's here to make enough money to become the 21st century equivalent of a god.




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