And as always there are 2 sides to the coin:
All the Ways Elon Musk Tried and Failed to Help with the Thai Cave Rescue
This highlighted tweet by Elon takes the cake:
Ironically, the “billionaire” label, when used by media, is almost always meant to devalue & denigrate the subject. I wasn’t called that until my companies got to a certain size, but reality is that I still do the same science & engineering as before. Just the scale has changed.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
The media only started calling him a billionaire after....his companies amassed $1 billion in net worth! What a smear campaign by the media!
My question is: did Elon ask the Thai government/head rescue coordinators permission to send engineers to the rescue effort prior to sending them? Or did he just send them because some rando on Twitter said he should?