Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by JumpinJack_Cash on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:56AM
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That's absolutely right.
Naive people and children fall victim of hero worship.
Adults and people who can think for themselves are beyond that and understand that it's humanity which progresses forward, humans just make a fuss and all sort of drama to be the person who gets the merit and gets to sign off the progress do jour.
Musk got to sign off the peculiar niche of EVs and rockets which are niches nobody else wanted because they dependant upon political support.
Looking at history, I can't imagine there's any useful technological advance (or adoption thereof) that depends on any individual - if EVs were meant to be successful I believe they would've been with or without Musk. Same goes for anything Space X does. Same goes for anything _anyone_ does. If you believe the world would be notably different without any one individual in it, that's what you chose to believe, I see no evidence from history for that.
Does he have valuable skills? I'm sure - if nothing else marketing and persistence. Was he involved in important stuff? Evidently. Did he get lucky? Absolutely. Does whatever perceived or actual good he did excuse the perceived or actual bad? Not in my opinion.