"He didn't make Tesla, he didn't make PayPal, and he didn't make the discovery on Neptune. What he does is what every business or corporation does; he uses his money to scoop up the hard work of others."

I have looked pretty hard at Musk because it is very difficult for me to believe he is who he seems to be. I have not found evidence to indicate my suspicions are valid. In other words, he seems to me to be forthright, and to be exactly who he seems to be, or at least I cannot find evidence after digging that he isn't.

What I learned is that he did make PayPal. He describes coding it on a shared computer that he only had access to during off hours. He didn't invent much about electric cars, as far as I know, anything about them. But he works 100 hours a week and is a hands on engineer with a buck stop on his desk, sleeping on the factory floor when he doesn't have time to get home after work. He did make Tesla. No one's hard work hasn't been more than fully matched by him in making it happen.

Then there's SpaceX. He works just as hard there, and risked everything to make that happen, dropping the cost of putting a kilo of cargo into orbit by an order of magnitude in the process. He taught himself to be a rocket scientist in his spare time. The spare time he has after working 100 hour weeks.

His companies are all focused on a single goal, colonizing Mars, and all contribute tech and wherewithal essential to that goal, including his solar power company, his tunnel making company, Neuralink, and Starlink too. He's become possibly the most wealthy man in the world not caring about his personal fortune, but working as hard as a farmer to deliver to humanity the improvement in security being a multi-planet species creates.

I think you're being overly dismissive of Elon Musk. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, his most significant competitors in the space business, are both graduates of the WEF's Young Global Leaders programs, minions of Klaus Schwab who is the apparent Dr. Evil hell bent on jamming us all into bugpods and taking over the world. Elon Musk is not.

Your research may have revealed things to you I have not seen and may justify your opinion to your way of thinking. But maybe you just think of him as just another billionaire, and haven't really looked hard at him, as I have made a half hearted attempt to do, and I might be providing new information to you. I dunno, but I thought I'd share what I learned if it might edify you and contrast with information you might have been getting from his competitors.

Thanks!