I know his girl is a wackado, but damnit I badly want Musk to be more Tesla and NOT Gates!
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He's paid all his government loans back related to SpaceX. And while SpaceX has government contracts, not as many as you would think. The lobbyists are still favoring dinosaurs like Boeing etc.
It's easy to put him one of 2 categories "them" or "us". But I think he's his own entity, not being run by anyone. Also notice how Don Jr has called for Elon to make his own media/telecommunications to compete with Twitter/facebook/etc.
I don't agree with him on everything, not a fan of the transhumanism stuff, but at the same time he's warned about how dangerous AI could be.
Nobody is squeaky clean, but I don't think Elon is a bad guy. He's just incredibly focused on what he wants to achieve.
Well I also won't rule out the idea that he may have been controlled but not fully on the dark side and so now trump and them are working with him in the shadows because he did sit on one of trumps advisory boards I believe.
I just don't believe any of these tech billionaires rags to riches stories. None of them are "their own man". Not the new rich. Some of the Trump types back in the day but if you broke into the mega rich you are connected.
He mocked Cyrus A Parsa when Parsa asked him for his assistance to get the message out about the dangers of AI coming from China