What makes "I want to launch rockets and am obsessed with doing it" a particularly virtuous assessment?

Because no hackernews thread about an Elon company is complete with either straight up religious worship of Elon or brushing away potentially legitimate concerns about his businesses - and this isn't even including the inevitable "Tesla isn't a car company" in any thread where Tesla is compared to any other company that sells cars

As far as reality distortion fields go, I don't think it's that bad, but with these kinds of things I am firmly in the "don't trust; verify twice" camp.

And no Hacker News comment about a Musk company is not filled with wild accusation accusing Musk of playing 4D Chess in 3D dimension, lying about literally everything and generally being a Bond villain.

The guy literally invested huge amount of his money into a scientific mission to mars and when he realized it wouldn't work he dedicated the next 20 years trying to build a company that could do it.

And he did all of this so he could have a good 'image' a small part of the population? That is just beyond stupid.