On Musk: it's not that he's a genius or a deity or a jackwagon, it's that he works long and hard. He's an able-minded guy who works long and hard on big problems and big ideas.
The world benefits from guys like that.
I think genius is a fair label for that guy. The guy has completely revolutionized banking/payments via internet (PayPal), space travel (SpaceX), energy (solar & storage), autonomous driving (Tesla), and electric vehicles (Tesla).
The guy does not get
ENOUGH credit for what he's accomplished. He isn't some hack like Bill Gates who stole someone else's ideas and IP and used cut-throat business tactics to monopolize and crush his competition. He isn't some dweeb like Bezos whose entire big idea was.. "hey let's sell stuff online and ship it to people's homes....and destroy retail in the process!" WHOA! BIG IDEA! What a game changer! Let's make Americans more f**ing fat and lazy than they already are and unable to leave their homes- and let them sit on their fat f**king asses even more and not have to leave the house just to have more junk and bullsh*t they don't really need or even really want shipped to their door steps.
HOW GROUNDBREAKING AND CUTTING EDGE! Musk has fundamentally changed the world in real and important ways- and many of those changes are still in their infancy. And they would not have happened without him or his brain power.
PayPal literally started online banking/payments- which obviously has revolutionized the world. Only four entities in world history have ever achieved human spaceflights. USSR/Russia, China, the United States......and SpaceX. SpaceX has revolutionized and continues to revolutionize space flight and exploration by dramatically reducing the cost per kg of launching rockets into space- something like 97% cheaper via the reusable rockets which can take off and then land successfully in order to be reused. Insane. No private space exploration entity is even remotely close. Bezos' and Branson's operations are a f***king pathetic JOKE compared to SpaceX.
Then there's Tesla- which has a
GIGANTIC lead on the field in terms of autonomous driving- they have
over 3.5 billion
real world miles of autonomous driving data- no competitor is even f**ing a
little bit close. Vast majority of their competitors "miles" are bullsh*t worthless simulations. On top of that- not to mention- when it comes to computing power- none of Tesla's competitors have self-driving silicon chips
anywhere remotely close to advanced as the ones Tesla has been
building themselves. Oh and then let's talk about electric vehicles themselves....which would not remotely be anywhere near as close to where they are without him and Tesla. Tesla now manufactures over 1 million EV's a year- and it's an American automotive company which started from scratch and succeeded- this hasn't been done in oh....
over a hundred plus years.
The man is just not from this planet. Most iconic African-American ever. For sure.