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Robotbeat9y ago· 2 in thread

Yeah, it is strange. A charlatan is someone who is lying and has no intent on following through on their unrealistic plans.

Musk clearly isn't a charlatan as he's trying his very best to make his unrealistic plans a reality, and has already succeeded tremendously.

Is Musk crazy? He might be. But he's earnestly crazy.

gozur889y ago

I think a lot of the criticism has come from moves he made on the business side, like having SpaceX buy SolarCity bonds.

erikpukinskis9y ago

Worked out pretty well for SpaceX.

At what point do you say "he's made so much money for us that we'll give him at least one major fuckup before we start trying to reign him in."?

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Florin_Andrei9y ago

> I just can't understand the people who love to criticize Musk as a charlatan and PR mastermind

As you hear opinions from a larger and larger group, the ideas start more and more to resemble noise, distributed according to some statistical law.

woodandsteel9y ago

My understanding is that the idea Musk is a charlatan is being orchestrated by the Koch brothers because they are in the oil business, and he is promoting renewable energy.

chinathrow9y ago

> he and his engineers are doing undeniable good

I think they do indeed a lot of good - however, launching a classified military spy satellite is not one of it, in my opinion.

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