>As an engineer, I’m sure he’s still top notch. That’s in large part what made him the richest man/human on Earth. People need to be more critical of themselve

>As an engineer, I’m sure he’s still top notch. That’s in large part what made him the richest man/human on Earth. People need to be more critical of themselves when reading or writing statements like this, and stop and question if the statement actually has a logical reason to be true, or is it based on one's own biased priors about the world (which this statement is certainly is). Firstly, when talking about people like Musk or Bezos or any other extremely wealthy individual with businesses behind them, their wealth isn't determined by the value that they bring, its determined by anyone who makes direct decisions to buy stock, which isn't 100% correlated to engineering value (i.e profiting of perceived movements of the price based on sentiment). Musk main talent is same one Trump has to become president and still enjoy a shitload of support - both can sell stories extremely well. Thats not to say he does't have ANY technical talent, as his companies are successful with actual products, but most of the reason that they are is because he was able to bring the money to push through the hardships, because no matter how hard he personally works, he still needs a lot of people with various talents to do other roles, which requires salaries, which requires selling stories.