> Gates tries to cure disease. Allen looked for historical wrecks None of that stuff concerns the avg. American. Gates was instrumental in the race for the vac

> Gates tries to cure disease. Allen looked for historical wrecks None of that stuff concerns the avg. American. Gates was instrumental in the race for the vaccine and Americans could not give a damn about it. Gates is old, can't speak and he's sort of stuck in between being an invisible apolitical billionaire such as the Waltons and somebody who tries to step in the public arena. Musk obliterated him because he is really all about being in the public arena , not tiptoeing about it. If you were a baseball coach in the World Series you wouldn't send to the mound a pitcher who is unsure of whether he wants to keep playing Baseball, right? > Musk does marketing and sells Musk This is what people want. A technological leader with the guts to call out nonsense and political correctness. Americans aren't endangered by polio or malaria and in the great scheme of things not even COVID (the things which Gates fights or claims to fight). Americans are endangered by big government, political correctness and technological standstill. Musk emerged as the singular force of hope for millions of people against all such dark forces. The shortest route between 2 points is a line. By the same token the shortest route to social success is becoming a politician. Musk noticed it and said to himself "if somebody must do it, then it might as well be somebody competent" and who is more competent than Elon Musk? Data says nobody. That's why the financials of his business don't matter, and they never will. He's the singular force of hope for people who don't like the current trajectory of the US. A true statist like Lee Kuan Yew, but for the whole US instead of just a tiny island like Singapore. Elon Musk is the man who sees infinite