We're perfectly capable of forming our own opinions based on personal observations.
I was with you until this part. I used to be a Musk fan but he's done a lot of things to make people legitimately dislike him over the last few years. I agree it doesn't make his past accomplishments less impressive, but people don't just hate him "because the media basically tells you to".
And it wasn't always the case, before he started insulting the media on twitter he was hailed as a god everywhere (which is also stupid).
I can pinpoint the exact tweet they turned on him and it's not difficult to find.
The word lucky is wrong here.
He does seem to be a decent investor at finding underserved market niches which can grow.
However, a lot of this is before he let social media rot his brain and let his ego run rampant.
To continue to tout his genius in the face of all of the evidence to the opposite is mind boggling
Are you referring to the Tesla company created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2001, and then bought by Musk 3 years later?
He got lucky in the 90s and has been riding that high ever since, buying Founder titles, and paying people to do the hard work for him.
Outside of that, I personally cannot support someone who named their children like Xbox usernames.
Elon is not here to save humanity or whatever BS he's trying to peddle to the world this time around. He's here to make enough money to become the 21st century equivalent of a god.
In the tech/startup world you can get lucky once or even twice on easy to sell products, but for a reusable rocket company and an electric car company? not even counting his first news startup or payment processor that merged with thiel to become paypal, etc.
I understand you guys hate him because the media basically tells you to and because he doesn't behave like your average tech founder, but to not see how biased and crazy what you're saying is because of it is simply mind boggling.