I'm definitely a fan of Elon Musk's accomplishments and his companies but yeah my opinion on him as a person is much more grey. I'm still not sure which parts of his journalist rating concept were real and which were satire. Deciding by popularity was a horrible and dangerous idea.Yes but according to some of the people there Elon didn't communicate through any of the proper channels to try and help. He only did it through social media or more publicly, and according to one of the diving experts there his submarine idea was never ever going to work. Just seems like a publicity stunt to me.
I don't know that much about Tesla and it does sound like they really do have bad working conditions, but it's hard to find the truth since so many people hate Elon Musk/the companies. SpaceX gets yelled at for having bad working conditions too yet in that case the stories have mostly been proven false.
The mini submarine was definitely not just a publicity stunt though. That'd make no sense. Instead it was probably Elon Musk genuinely wanting to help save the kids and wanting credit for helping to save the kids. That'd match how Robert Zubrin described Elon in an interview I listened to a few months back.
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