Unfortunately, that's all you need to become a billionaire in this country (besides a massive inheritance).
Every subsidy and tax credit Tesla ever got was earned through fraud and deception.
When Teslas crash on self-driving mode, they turn off self-driving mode nanoseconds before the crash so the driver can be blamed.
Elon literally purchased the title of "Founder" from the actual founder of Tesla.
He got sued into buying Twitter after trying to back out, and now acts like it was always his master plan.
Emerald mines? What emerald mines.
Rocket explosion? It was supposed to do that, look at all my engineers clapping and cheering knowing they'll be fired if they don't.
Nobody wants to pay for a checkmark? Of course they do, look at all the check marks he's buying for them.
This man's entire career has been him screaming "I'm not owned, I'm not owned, you're owned." And it works. Because capitalism is the exact opposite of a meritocracy.
You could write Elon in a dystopian cyberpunk novel and critics would be like "nah, not believable too laughably evil".
"There's no way the government would trust this guy with the entire space program, ridiculous."
And stupid
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It it weren't so upsetting that'd be rad as hell plot twist. Great narrative hook tbh.
"Turns out the Illuminati is just Capitalism."
Usually one of them is picked to be the fall guy, ala Bernie Madoff I like to think that Epstein was the Madoff of the elite billionaire pedophile world.
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And when the fall guy goes down the stupid public is like "oh okay, problem solved!" and the show goes on behind the scenes.
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