Elon is nothing without the engineers working for him. His rise was entirely facilitated by govt handouts orchestrated by the PayPal mafia. On a level playing field, I’d bet against him

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Then why hasn’t anyone else done what he has done? He built 3 of the top 5 privately held companies in the world. Elon was the chief rocket engineer when he started SpaceX. It takes a team or course, and Elon is by far the most important member of the team. Like Jordan to the bulls, but maybe if you combined Phil and Jordan into one person.

Bc govt is shielding him from competition via an antitrust framework rigged in favor of incumbents, national security restrictions on foreign competitors, sweetheart govt contracts/subsidies, arbitrary licensing qualifications, ev mandates, onerous compliance costs requiring an army of lawyers to navigate (eg emission regs and labor unions), minimum wage laws, IP protections, cantillon effect, etc. Basically he would be caught pants down if he operated in a free market