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I agree with most of that, but he’s no genius and he’s not even an inventor. He takes other people’s tech, pushes it to the limits by pushing his employees to theirs, then gets bored and moves on to something else.

Tesla has severe QA problems. The Boring Company made tunnel diggers larger and struggled to get it to work. SpaceX has revolutionized space travel while completely ignoring the pollution and space debris it is causing in our stratosphere. He accidentally bought Twitter and we all know how that went.
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Evan 1y ago

He’s definitely one of the most important people of the century, though I suspect (hope?) that the future looks back on him long after his death as we do the robber barons of the 19th century.

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gotham_now 1y ago

Meh, the vogue of envious historians damning everyone more successful as deficient by their preferred standard is as much a product of our own time as it is a reflection on the period of “robber barons”.