It’s perfectly fair (for some value of fair). Both SpaceX and Tesla would not exist today if not for US government money, yet Musk bitches endlessly about government interference, as if his own personal fortune wasn’t down to simply cashing out at the right time during the dot-com boom. Peter Thiel is right about one thing only: Musk is an entitled emerald scion braggart.
Ehh, lots of folks get billions of dollars of government money and have zero to show for it. At least with Elon we get cheap, reliable lift vehicles and 1-2 million EVs per year being built. It’s easy to handwave away his hard work because it costs someone nothing but contempt, but if it was so easy why was he the one to do it? Because it’s hard.
He’s obnoxious and yet surgically effective. Seems fair for the results, even when considering how much luck was a component (PayPal).
