Elon Musk

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I have read several books on Musk including the histories of Tesla and SpaceX. All were written by third parties. He got rich off of PayPal and put everything into those two companies - both which he acknowledged had a slim chance of success - and he damn-near bankrupted both companies and himself. He honestly believed he was doing good in creating those companies. The man slept on the factory floors until he succeeded. He honestly believes that establishing a settlement on Mars is the most important thing to humanity. But he doesn't care about who he has to trample over to get there. He couldn't care less about the happiness or welfare of those toiling away in his factories aside from them remaining content enough to stay there. Again, he doesn't care about individuals. He's not a nice guy.

He's a heartless bastard. But if he didn't care about what he was doing, he could just buy an island nation in the Caribbean and spend the rest of his life being served by a staff of ten thousand female Olympic gymnasts.

He's working actively to undermine our democracy.

We're getting a little off-track. My argument is that SpaceX (as well as Tesla) is a major plus for humanity. I don't disagree that Musk is a supreme douchebag and seems to be getting worse by the day.

This kind of thing is nothing new. Most people are aware that the famous inventor Thomas Edison was about as nasty as they come. Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was a major antisemite and racist. Famous industrialist Henry Ford was even worse than Lindbergh - so bad that Adolph Hitler supposedly had an oil painting of him in his office. Musk is the latest in the line of great contributors who also happens to be a human turd.