> A fickle, ego driven person gives the world the first reusable rockets and electric cars? I didn't assert that the aforementioned qualities are mutually excl

> A fickle, ego driven person gives the world the first reusable rockets and electric cars? I didn't assert that the aforementioned qualities are mutually exclusive with notable achievement, and I'd even argue that being ego-driven, in particular, would help with such efforts. That said, did Musk bring us the first reusable rockets? Almost certainly not. He didn't even bring us the first commercial reusable rocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#First_vertical_soft_landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#First_vertical_sof...). And you can't possibly think that musk truly introduced the world's first electric cars, can you? There were electric carriages as early as the 1830s, and quite a few commercially available electric cars in the 20th century.