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Nope. Even the Silicon Valley cult wants to disrupt the markets by being more profitable than others, NOT by being an incompetent and unhinged fraud like Musk.
He hasn't been innovative, he's been throwing money at others to innovate for him. Sometimes he'll give them vague (and often impossible to follow) guidelines, but otherwise, he's in the business of spending money so that other people with actual expertise make money for him.
That's why he's made such a shit show out of Twitter: for the first time, he's not just the money man. He's actually the one making important decisions and he's REALLY fucking bad at it.
The fact that he's a narcissistic bigot who loves the far right and will do anything to avoid admitting his mistakes of course compounds the harm.
Because cult brainwashing and hero worship of conmen are things. Like with Trump, some people think Musk can walk on water and would follow his lead and back his companies no matter what.
When those people lose their life savings, they aren't the only ones getting hurt: their families who might disagree will be destitute too. Them not having money to spend on goods and services hurts local businesses that they might otherwise spend money on. It all ripples out and, when the scale is big enough, hurts everyone except the debt profiteering vulture industry and the baboon himself.
The market is NOWHERE near free. The deck is very much stacked in favor of billionaires, especially hectobillionaires like Musk. And even THEN, he still breaks the law to stack it further, to the detriment of society as a whole.
That's not letting idiots be Idiots (which is already a bad idea, as I explained above), that's letting an already extremely privileged money hoarding man-child defraud everyone else to further increase his obscene dragon's hoard of riches.
You missed the point entirely as expected. Americans obviously cannot think critically.
Nobody said Elon is the engineer behind all his successes. Those that do, are easily proven wrong and if they want to throw all their money away, let them.
The US let's people gamble. Go $100k in debt to study Mesopotamian pottery making and then become a barista. All the normal people with pensions that lose everything in restructuring like GM or many of the airlines, etc prove the US doesn't care most of the time. They pick and choose when to be burdens. The US government bailed out banks, car companies, and lots of other industries at a tax loss. But the people of say Enron, got nothing. The victims of Bernie Madoff, got (almost) nothing.
If you invested with Madoff, and lost everything, why don't you get money back too? He wasn't crazy. He was backed by 2 independent US credit and backing and auditing agencies. The SEC was paid off to not look at things with him and many of the frauds that led to the 2008 collapse. Elon, you know is crazy. If you don't know he's crazy, that's a personal problem.
The US also doesn't require a cognitive test of any kind to invest all your life savings into something. If you want to sell everything and buy Trump Steaks with Bible verses on them, nobody will stop you. That's freedumb.