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I'm no defender of Musk, but he (and the people working for him) seem pretty serious about making Tesla and SpaceX enduring companies. And honestly, if I had bi

• demondemidi 3y ago
  I don't disagree with you at all. He has hired very brilliant people and it is easy to list a dozen things that would have taken decades or more to happen if he hadn't gone full nerd-billionaire and thrown gobs of money at his passions. Whether or not Musk himself is smart is besides the point: he took his childhood dreams and spent big money to make them happen. Who wouldn't do that? That being said I think he's an evil POS, and I think the biggest struggle popular culture is having is that of simple naratives: people are all-or-nothing, black-or-white. It's possible someone can be a crapoid earthling and still cause beneficial things to happen in spite of who they are. That's a hard pill to swallow from either direction, and I have a very tough time with it! I personally don't think the ends justify the means here, but that's because of where I set my bar. Other bars may vary.