> What about the famous Henry Ford? Criticized as ... That's not really an apt comparison, as most such criticisms of Ford are post hoc rather than contemporar

> What about the famous Henry Ford? Criticized as ... That's not really an apt comparison, as most such criticisms of Ford are post hoc rather than contemporary. While it's a given that some people were or would have been uncomfortable or even enraged by these things at the time, nome of them were widely controversial at the time, nor was Ford himself. It's more in looking back that we can see how he expressed his power in ways that were deeply illiberal and unmodern. At the time though, it wasn't the kind of thing that would earn big news cycles. What we see with Musk is very different. He specifically crafts his public image to be as controversial as he can get away with, and operates a major media enterprise largely for the purpose of drawing attention to it.