Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "MUSK FANS: Thunderf00t is a GRIFTER FOR THE CLICKS!!!" video.

  1. Aerospace Engineer - Your 100% right on the first point and sort of maybe on the second. Like Thunderf00t I had my time in Academia but actually walked away from my PhD Scholarship in disgust at the behavior of my supervisors. Mine just simply admitted to financial fraud to my face one day. I've spent the last 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation across a bunch of industries mostly manufacturing and mining. On one hand I absolutely agree that Elon Musk is a techno-charlatan BUT the reason he's got away with it is because he's actually done a couple of good things. I spent a chunk of my career building small production cells for the Australian automotive sector and I can tell that entire sector needed a super monster kick in the arse. In some ways its a brilliant industry and in others its easily one of the worst run industries on the planet. Mining is worse by the way. Sorry to all but, its an inescapable fact, that Tesla has shaken the automotive industry and given it the kick it needed. Love him or hate him it can't be denied, but that doesn't mean Elon is innocent either. All the stupid claims about FSD technology and other stuff was crap and garbage and he deserves all the scorn he gets for it. On the SpaceX front there's also a giant hit and miss. The Falcon rockets which Elon had effectively zero to do with have been a gigantic success. Its even more obvious when its compared to Boeing Starliner which so far has had 2 partially successful uncrewed test flights. Despite being originally scheduled for its first crewed flight in 2017 is yet to fly a person anywhere. Meanwhile Crew Dragon had 3 successful test flights followed by a manned test flight followed by 9 successful crewed missions a with 2 more crewed missions currently attached to the ISS. On the flip side just to show Elon is stupid. He's had little to do with Falcon & Crew Dragon, but been heavily involved with Starship and that's almost as bad as Boeing's Starliner. I wont go into it because its pages long. I'd say Elon has 2 things he very good at. 1) Identifying people who are technically very good at their job. Without that Tesla and SpaceX would have nothing. 2) Identifying what the non-technically trained general public will latch onto as the next super technology. In that respect he's like PT Barnum, the Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Vince McMahon and many of the other entertainment industry leaders have been like - Elon knows what the general public will buy into.
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