n if he were the greatest engineer in history, that doesn't give him any credentials for trying to reshape our country into an autocracy.
While it gives him no such right (and he did not attempt to do that, ever), he certainly has every right to make it a better place (which he has, in innumerable ways). And he has done the same for the world, thus far.
But, my parents weren't and still aren't wealthy. They couldn't force others to conform to my strangeness. Elon was different.
I know only what I've heard from Musk himself, his mother when rarely speaking, his ex-wife (Justine), and his brother. Well, I've read the bio which was very independently done, imo.
Elon, before he became wealthy, certainly could not force anyone to do anything. You may recall that he was flatly kicked out of PayPal (although they paid him well to leave). IIRC, the dad contributed 28K to the first venture (Zip2). Not much.
Musk has arrogance in spades. Even if he were the greatest engineer in history, that doesn't give him any credentials for trying to reshape our country into an autocracy.
Probably by the time you've become wealthiest industrialist in the world, you have credentials to attack big problems. While he was a little over-confident at first, he can be excused for that: where he works, when he says, "Do it like this: xxxxxx" it gets done. He underestimated the resistance from the Democrats to saving tax dollars, and he underestimated just how bad the internal systems were and how difficult it would be to get reasonable data access. All that.
Still, they've managed to save taxpayers a quarter trillion, and that's not nothing. |
