It's funny, you claim that I am misattributing Musk's success, and at the same time you are misattributing the success of a company bought by Elon and carried by people who bought into the idea into long hours of work with little pay, bad conditions, and lots of racism [1,2] while being overvalued[3] and whose self-anointed CEO is under investigation for market manipulation and insider trading [4].

I want to draw attention to your own language, here:

> Currently the DoD, NASA and ESA relies on SpaceX. Literally the 2 of the 3 largest space agencies on relay on him.

In particular the pronoun. The space agencies do not rely on "him", they rely on SpaceX and the people working there, not specifically on Musk. Musk is not doing any engineering, designing, science, or manufacturing.

What Elon is doing is selling an idea through his brand which attracts the people who do the actual work.

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> That Musk success is luck is just beyond fucking stupid.

Notice that I didn't attribute his success to sheer dumb luck. I was rather particular in my language. Being born into money opens many doors for you. Just from an immigration standpoint, he could at any point immigrate to the US because he could "invest" in some company and earn a visa to stay. He had a Canadian citizenship by birth, born into a family of immense wealth.

Those things already put him in 3rd base and enable him to do more.

He never had to deal with immigration issues or green-card lotteries or anything of this nature while people who were smarter, or better engineers, or whatever else are battling immigration processes.

He was literally born at the right time and had the money to be an adult with money in the dot-com era.

Just from the sheer number of people who were in that position - and many were - somebody had to land to the top. That's kinda how sampling works, even if the chance is very low, given enough samples it happens, and if you are dealing in ordinals; then for any number of people a 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc must exist.

I didn't attribute everything to sheer luck, and your fanboyism shows.

Musk may not be an engineer or a scientist, but he certainly knew how to cultivate a brand and inspire people. He has severely tarnished said brand over the last few years, e.g. calling a diver a peadophile out of nowhere, the whole twitter fiasco, everything related to market manipulation and insider trading...

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As for concerns over jealousy; even if I was a billionaire my life wouldn't change. I am paid multiple times over what I need. My work is just 10h of meetings, the other 30 hours or so of programming I would do for free. I mean, I program for free at my down time any way...

Most importantly, I have great relationships with my family and friends, and we are all healthy and thriving. I could never imagine my children cutting me off their lives, and there's no amount of money, or fame or any other ephemeral or fleeting desires that can ever be worth losing that.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-orders-tesla-pay-32-mln-b...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pays-employees-better-elon-mu...

[3] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/03/marke...