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As well as jump starting two of the most important technologies in the last 30 years, cheap access to space and electric cars.
by Gud 2y ago
As well as jump starting two of the most important technologies in the last 30 years, cheap access to space and electric cars.
- krapp 2y agoAre you one of those people who believes Elon Musk built everything by hand in a cave with scraps or something? Musk invested in technologies other people were working on and companies other people started, and hired other people who made it all work (often, given anecdotal reports, in spite of him.) Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part.
- Gud 2y agoNo. I doubt those people exist.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part Sure, granted. The claim isn't re-usable rockets and mass-market EVs aren't possible without Musk. It's that it wouldn't be reality at scale today. Musk has a rare combination of leadership, management and political ability that lets him coordinate large groups of people and capital on resource-intensive, long-term, long-shot goals; achieve those goals; and make money on it, thereby making the process repeatable. That doesn't excuse his nonsense public behaviour. But that behaviour, in turn, doesn't erase his accomplishments.