alt Hacker NewsInvoking Atlas Shrugged and "the government is punishing the most productive, wealth-generating members of society!" when you run a shitcoin startup is hysterical. Musk is a scumbag but at least he builds real rockets and electric cars. The author of this article lets people arbitrage monkey JPEGs and has the gall to complain about being taxed on it.
Musk doesn't build anything. By all accounts he is incompetent as an engineer and managed to fail upwards into the right subsidies to save his businesses multiple times. All of his ventures have relied on government funding. SpaceX and even Tesla almost died multiple times and were barely rescued by massive bailouts by the government (aka us. our taxpayer money).
If you hire competent people and get billions in support, you'd have to be massively incompetent to not end up with an actual product.
See for yourself how much we've paid him:
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/space-explor...
Not to mention the limitless violations he's faced little to no consequences for
https://violationtrackerglobal.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/spac...
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker...
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?parent=tesla-inc...