That's part of it, but I think it's more envy driven. He took his winnings at Paypal and bet it all to transform 2 industries. While most of us would have retired, blew it on a mansion and binge watch Game of Thrones in our private theater. Where would we be with electric cars and space right now if he had spent the past 20 years sailing on a yacht collecting supermodels? He could have done that instead.

He shows what's possible and it exposes our inadequacies and sloth. If you're insecure, he is constantly touching a nerve with success after success, his massive fanbase and ever presence in the news.

Remember when he called that diver in Thailand a pedophile because the diver (one of the most experienced cave divers in the world) called his idea dumb as shit? That's why I don't like him (well, one of the many many reasons, but a big one).

I didn't like that either, but put it in context. It's 1 of 17,000 tweets. There aren't many users with that many tweets who haven't lost their cool and called someone else a name. It's one of the most common things you see on twitter. Not excusing it, just saying it's worth looking at in context and importantly it's not something he's repeated.

He double downed on it when a simple apology would have sufficed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9853387/Elon-Musk-r...

The modern era, no one can make a mistake, no one can be allowed to ever forget their mistakes, and we must always use any minor mistake to cancel the person if they do not agree with us politically

Probably also the abuse of his workers. Some people really can't stand that.

Some people also have wildly different views on what "abuse" is...