> If we remove the money gained from computer business shenanigans, then all that's left are social outcasts obsessed with computers who have no sense of how "t

> If we remove the money gained from computer business shenanigans, then all that's left are social outcasts obsessed with computers who have no sense of how "the real world" works; they must escape into the world as presented to them by a computer because they cannot hack the real one. For all the criticisms you can level against Musk, this just seems like a weird and obviously wrong one. He made a ton of money on PayPal and could have done exactly as you say - escaped into the digital world, never interacting with anyone again. Instead he decided to take his money and put it into two decidedly "real world" companies in Tesla and SpaceX, putting himself into real world concerns of geopolitics in a way that he absolutely didn't need to. Maybe he's not "great" (though I think that's sort of a uselessly vague word here), but the idea that he's just some computer-obsessed social outcast doesn't make sense. I know computer-obsessed social outcasts, and they don't go put all of their money making themselves the face of large-scale, public endeavors.