> his ideas are getting way more attention than other people's ideas, stupid or not. His amazing track record with success means his ideas merit more attention

> his ideas are getting way more attention than other people's ideas, stupid or not. His amazing track record with success means his ideas merit more attention than your ideas or mine. > The cave guys in Thailand had to waste precious time insulting Musk on CNN. They didn't have to do that. They could have simply said "no thank you, we'll handle it". > But he is an attention whore because he knows it's good for business. Yes, offering his company's considerable engineering talent and resources for free is pure evil. Sheesh. > Instead they fired quickly They didn't have the people to evaluate tens of thousands of individuals, nor did they have several years to do it in. The way they proceeded was the only practical way. It's the way all organizations above a certain size cut costs when hemorrhaging cash.