While this is true, (and I don't want to try to be politically neutral here), if we look at Elon's enormous increase in power and also significant increase in w

While this is true, (and I don't want to try to be politically neutral here), if we look at Elon's enormous increase in power and also significant increase in wealth, it would definately be positive ROI for him. He went through a lot of stress thought being leveraged in the stock market crash.