Usually I agree with you on most things but the idea Elon does things to “advance society forward” seems a bit too altruistic to me. I think his actions have clearly been based on ego/personal and financial incentives rather than trying to do things to better society. Not sure if #[2] would agree
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Guy built an extremely risky and non-lucrative rocket company to try to make humanity interplanetary. People *just* interested in money don’t do that. Starting to think he would be totally down with being god emperor of the solar system though.
Yeah. Money doesn’t have to be the only incentive. Power and ego are definitely big ones too
Money probably exposes the owner by itself. How can you even have a lot of money and hide? That‘s probably much more difficult than if you don‘t have money.
I guess your features are amplified by money. Alternatively you donate to a monastery and disappear.
Tesla’s first profitable year was 2021.