Believing he built two of the most important companies of the 21st century is part of the con. The first being that they are the most important and that he built them.
You have to be pretty dimwitted to think that either SpaceX or Tesla 1) are unimportant, or 2) would have reached anything close to their current level of success without Musk behind them.
Which makes his descent into erratic flimflammery all the more tragic.
I'm not disputing that he has faults, it's just amazing how his real accomplishments get magnified or erased by dumb tweets in 2023, 10-15 years later. How many people fall for this stuff?
And here are many of us saying the same about the people who fall for the cult of personality that surrounds this serial liar. To be fair, many of us are speaking with hindsight, as we too fell for it years ago, before his penchant for lying was laid bare.
Sure but Tesla and SpaceX objectively exist in the real world. Landing a freaking rocket booster is now routine.
It would be "cult of personality" to pretend the Musk did everything personally, obviously a lot of dedicated people contributed.. but it's just as dumb to act like he wasn't involved.
The cars produced by Tesla were not already built before his time, but the company Tesla was. You do realize that companies and cars are different things, right?
There was no intent to say anything about innovation. That would be wildly off-topic. Can you point to where I spoke of it so that I can correct the comment for future readers?
