Elon Musk Genius Debate

Nothing Musk does is "cool". He consumes air and produces CO2 while supplying greenbacks he didn't make. Other people do the real work for him and feed him only what he wants to hear (see his "handlers" at SpaceX that largely keep him OUT of the day-to-day business -- contrast his with abject failure of Twitter where he has direct control).Stop letting the billionaire take other people's credit. We already have to deal with bosses like that.It's shameful

> Musk has done genuinely pioneering work in electric vehicles and rocketry. [...] That he also goes a bit crazy on Twitter doesn't really take away from any of that.If you look at it from the perspective of someone who likes Musk, then he's the lynchpin of Tesla and SpaceX which are advancing humanity, every other company's EV and self-driving features are only because he lit a fire under them; and the stuff he's doing with his money is much more exciting than o

There are, but you need to remove personal cult from the filter. Musk did not design the rockets or come up with the idea of electric car - he cleverly positions himself as the technology guru running whole factories with his own hands but in fact it's a massive effort to hide the names of people who created his products and avoid giving them any credit.

I'm a fan of Musk and his companies. I own one of his cars (as far as they can be called "his," obviously there are tons of people involved) and it's even better than all the "best car in the world!" people say. I follow every SpaceX launch and am eager to see them pull off their stage recovery attempts soon.That said, this doesn't surprise me at all. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy I'd want to work for. My admiration is about vision and execu

He is a brilliant business man and gave all of the engineers at spacex the opportunity and freedom to achieve great things. For that he should be commended - we need more business leaders like him in this world! I think at the end of the day though in idolizing Musk you are taking away from the hard work and brilliance of all the other employees at his companies. America has this iron man style obsession with one guy changing the world by himself. But at the end of the day we achieve greatness

Musk may be an incredible prick on Twitter and be a terrible boss to get orders from, his vision gave us Tesla and Space X, both ground breaking and needed developments. He is a man of vision, not a manager or people person. And his vision is limited to technology, not economics or politics. But if you're that rich, you can come to think that you know it all.

These articles need to be written in the manner they usually are because of the juxtaposition of who Musk presents himself as and who he actually is.Musk in practice isn't a scientist or engineer. He has never built anything in a professional setting. He has discovered nothing. He belongs to the business class. In our society we give the business class a lot of privilege, power, and general leeway. Most of it quite frankly undeserved.It shouldn't be a surprise that yet again, wit

Quick thoughts - I agree with you that most people (myself included) cannot relate to how Musk thinks.Humbly, when I don't understand where Musk comes from on something, I don't assume that the disconnect is due to superior intelligence on my part[0] (but weirdly, plenty of people with objectively little accomplishment have no problem assuming that they are seeing something Musk is blind to)So, everything that follows is conjecture for the sake of a probabilistic answer to your q

Musk was an effective CEO for Tesla and SpaceX because he didn’t care that people thought he couldn’t succeed in doing what he was trying to do. Based on his personality, I suspect his success is in no small part due to those people saying he would fail. He’s a total failure as Twitter’s pretend not-CEO because he’s allowed his mind to be infected with culture war politics.

I never understood why people think Musk is some kind of genius man.He absolutely is a very good salesman and marketeer but that's about it. Everything he sold that was successful was created by others. The moment he starts to interfere things go wrong. The Cybertruck is a great example.It is also known that people at SpaceX hate it when he is around telling people what to do because most of it doesn't make sense.Now he is in politics it becomes clear to a lot of people who he