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Musk also seems to spawn hordes of naysayers and pessimists who would rather revel in his personal failure than see a better world brought partially by his succ
by hurricanetc 7y ago
Musk also seems to spawn hordes of naysayers and pessimists who would rather revel in his personal failure than see a better world brought partially by his successes.
I am not sure exactly why people react this way. Are people also following around Bill Gates vocally hoping his ventures into vaccination and energy go belly up?
- lioeters 7y agoI think part of the reason why Musk and his ventures attract vocal opponents is that he's challenging entrenched interests and making good progress at it. To speculate, there might be financial movitations for negative PR campaigns, for example from the oil and traditional automobile industries.
- 93po 7y agoOil companies, energy companies, automobile companies and their endless suppliers, banks hate him because of PayPal, defense contractors might hate him if SpaceX takes over some contracts they'd otherwise have. Other battery manufacturers. The several other self driving companies (or divisions I guess since they seem to all get acquired). I don't know, the list is probably endless. Edit: light rail companies and their supporting infrastructure companies
- blackearl 7y agoFor the same reason people key Teslas (and get caught on camera doing it). Small-minded jealous people who would rather watch the world burn.