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Bloated Plutocrat Fails Again
Musk implodes as he morphs into a Victorian Mill Owner
For far too long, Elon Musk maintained an entirely undeserved reputation as a tech visionary, brilliant entrepreneur, and humanity’s would-be savior. Gullible journalists have printed endless puff-pieces that presumably generate nice revenues for their publications but signally fail to provide anything of substance. Legions of naïve worshippers have metaphorically prostrated themselves at the feet of their tech guru, imagining that he can do no wrong and that, rather like a silly man in a Bond movie stroking a white cat on his lap, Musk is following a Grand Plan for world domination.
There were always a few people who saw through the charade, but for the most part everyone went along with the hype and Musk grew ever more confident in his own infallible genius — despite the fact that his companies in general survived despite him rather than because of him.
Tesla — which owes its existence to the intellectual property developed by its founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning — nearly went bankrupt on multiple occasions thanks to Musk’s mismanagement, still can’t produce vehicles of sufficiently high quality to justify their sticker price, and only ekes out a tiny profit thanks entirely to sales of carbon credits (the value of which continues to…
