Strong words. When looking at what Elon has done as a collective, his positives greatly outweigh his negatives.
Yup, agreed. But as it's a weekend, I'll respond to your other points.
Yes he says things from time to time which aren't very value added nor polite, but he also says a LOT more which is benign or even positive.
Sure. He praises his teams, he talks about what his businesses have done and will do. He answers questions about his businesses, etc. That's the stuff he should be talking about.
And then he talks about things about which he knows little and understands less. That's where he goes off the rails.
The negative simply gets amplified above the rest.
For the general public, sure. But I learned long ago to ignore all the noise and just look at what Musk/Tesla actually says. Since I've been following Tesla obsessively since 2013, I've pretty much seen all the FUD. I don't even look at it any more except to see where the fools get the grist for their mills.
If you truly believe Elon is a "despicable human being" then you either aren't paying complete attention or you are trying to push an agenda. Perhaps you should sell all of your TSLA so as not to support someone you view as such a terrible person?
Well, it's taken years of Musk saying more and more egregious things to get me to where I am today. As I've pretty much read or watched everything he's said since 2013, I'd say I've got a fair amount of material to work with.
Being despicable is not unprecedented amongst automotive geniuses you know. Henry Ford became America's biggest Nazi fan. How did that happen? Was he always that way? Is it excusable because "his positives greatly outweigh his negatives"?
So, no, I can't actually tell whether Elon has been a despicable human being all along and has only recently, in the past few years, gradually revealed himself. Or whether he's changed over time. With the constant abuse he's received from the media and the public that wouldn't surprise me. He's certainly been a prime example of "No good deed goes unpunished." That wears on a person.
Or maybe he's become more and more convinced that he's living in a simulation and the only reasonable way to
win is to treat all but a select few people as NPCs? This could lead to the symptoms he exhibits, where he says he "loves humanity" but apparently has no use or respect for any actual people who don't serve his purposes.
As to selling my huge TSLA investment. Why? Tesla behaves pretty reasonably as a company, in general much more reasonably than their competition. What I have done is significantly curtail my responding to FUD, especially Elon FUD. If Elon is going to say the awful things he does, I'm not going to defend him when people lie about him.
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