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...