The federal government underdelivers. Corporations by default underdeliver. Grad students underdeliver. Football teams underdeliver.
Every single institution on earth more ambitious than lawncare services makes lofty ambitious goals and then achieve maybe 20% of them. Musk is the same, but the difference is that his 20% are orders of magnitude more ambitious than anyone else, so 20% delivery is still world-changing.
The guy is a liar, look it up.
Go on youtube and search "elon musk debunked". There are lots of videos with sources showing how elon is a fraud.
If elon musk is an engineer, what has he engineered that has his name on it?
Please point me in the direction that shows that elon has the certifications and education to call himself an engineer.
Musk has a lot of people fooled that he's a genius, and he even lied about having asbergers, on top of everything else he has lied about.
That being said, a physics degree is more than enough to work in most engineering positions. Elon being the leader is probably the most important part of the SpaceX and Tesla engineering teams and shares the credit with everyone else when a good product ships.
I never claimed otherwise. Having a degree in physics does not make an engineer, though.
A person whose title is 'Chief Engineer' and has a physics degree is also an engineer aka Elon therefore he is an engineer.
This is ridiculous debate given Elon leads thousands of engineers daily and given his success there's no doubt that he is making good engineering decisions daily because he is a good engineer.
You mean the title Musk gave himself, like "Techno King"? Even Musk admits that his titles don't mean anything[1].
It's a real stretch to think someone calling themselves an engineer makes them an engineer.
There must be millions of people working with "software engineer" titles who aren't aware that they're actually engineers, too!
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/07/elon-musk-ceo-is-made-up-tit...
Given there is no official definition and the definition is subjective, you pretty much can't win this argument.
Why are you making it about this commenter? They are not wrong. Unless you can answer this next question:
> He's delivered on electric cars and reusable rockets. It's fair to say promises more than he delivers, but he delivers an awful lot.
So where are the 1 million robo-taxis driving around at Level 5 FSD ready for release in 2020 then?
There is a reason why he is very clever at playing the pied piper and manipulating his customers like crash dummies to buy his FSD contraption to run each other down whilst increasing the price of a broken product.
That alone highlights the scam he is running with FSD which is a shame since that it damages his credibility and with the repeated failed claims and predictions of FSD not materializing, he is making himself a magnificent example of a great con artist with Tesla.
Ardent Musk fanboys look at the rockets, see them actually work, and conclude that Musk is legit in everything he does.
Personally I think Musk's ventures are a mix of scam and legitimate. His rockets are real, but I don't believe for a minute they'll ever send a colony to Mars. His cars are real, but anybody who bought one hoping it would make passive income as a robotaxi got burned. Musk ventures are like going to a circus; the lions are probably real, the mermaid exhibit isn't, and the "world's strongest man" is certainly strong, but not the world's strongest.
There was no mention of me calling SpaceX, Tesla cars, etc a scam. You can support and purchase a Tesla but also be critical of the claims about FSD and leave out SpaceX, Starlink, etc.