> I find it really hard to understand how someone like that has achieved what he has. I think it's just strong evidence that a lot of rich people got lucky onc

> I find it really hard to understand how someone like that has achieved what he has. I think it's just strong evidence that a lot of rich people got lucky once and managed to leverage that into getting richer because so much of life becomes Easy Mode at that point. Immediately not being subject to the "Boots" theory, but at scale, makes a huge difference. I think there's a strong argument that Musk actually made a few smart decisions - right time, right place for electric cars. But reading some of the documents that have come out of this make it seems like he hit his limits a long time ago and is now floundering along uselessly. To me it's just another strong argument that we shouldn't tolerate billionaires and they should be taxed out of existence until they're merely "extremely incredibly wealthy" and not nation-states unto themselves.