So I deeply respect the accomplishments of SpaceX. As much as SpaceX depends on government handouts (like all of Elon's companies), launch contracts are so often "cost plus" contracts so there's really no economic incentive to create a reusable launch system. I understand how SpaceX led to hero worship. It's really hard to gel SpaceX with everything else Elon has done however because he's basically failed upwards his entire career otherwise:

1. The myth of being self-made. Elon's father owned an emerald mine in Zambia and family money launched his career;

2. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. It was rescued by a government loan based on a claim of funding he didn't actually have. He used securing that loan to get the funding. That's basically fraud;

3. Elon is incredibly thin-skinned, to the point of calling one of the Thailand cave rescuers a "pedo guy" for insulting his submarine. He won the defamation suit by bsaically lying that this was South African slang [2]. He went further and hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on the guy [3];

4. More thin-skinned ego: his attempt to rewrite history as founding or creating Tesla. He bought in;

5. Tesla (and SolarCity) basically only exist by government largesse through EV subsidies and carbon credits;

6. When SolarCity failed, owing a bunch of money to SpaceX, Elon bailed it out by Tesla buying SolarCity;

7. Cybertruck anyone?

8. Teslas aren't actually great as cars. For example, the motors for seat adjustment are so unreliable that a software update was pushed to limit your ability to adjust them due to the inevitable failure this would cause;

9. Using Twitter to engage in securities fraud;

10. Elon was fired from Paypal;

11. Elon bordered on being a COVID and vaccine denier and reopened his Tesla factory in violation of public health directives, which caused hundreds of cases;

12. His politics are predictably awful;

13. He basically bought Twitter as a result of going down the alt-right rabbit hole and impulsively entered a $44 billion deal he couldn't back out of because the other side had way better lawyers and/or (I suspect this is also true) he didn't listen to his own lawyers;

14. He really has no choice now but to cut costs and hope to sell the business to get out of it in the next few years. In doing so, he's destroying confidence in tdhe platform for users and advertisers, going so far as to claim activists are destroying "free speech" [4].

15. Elon is getting his ass eaten on Twitter over everything going on and predictably can't handle it due to being a thin-skinned egomaniac, for example (allegedly) "bricking" AOC's account [5].

16. As further evidence of his awful politics, he tweeted (and quickly deleted) a link to a conspiracy site pushing a right-wing conspiracy that the home invasion and attack on Paul Pelosi was in fact a feud between gay lovers [6].

I'm honestly glad many people are waking up to just how cringe and annoying Elon Musk actually is.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911072/tesla-seat-contr...

[3]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-unswo...

[4]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-m...

[5]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-04/alexandria-ocasio-cor...

[6]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweets-li...