re: #30 Targetpractice

Well yes, Musk is a “genius” a lot like Edison was: He knew jack-shit about inventing, but he knew a great deal about marketing. His greatest invention was one that corporations follow to this day: Creating an R&D department whose work you can profit off of by slapping your name all over the patents and then suing anybody (including your own employees) for “infringing” upon them. While we know Tesla and alternating current only because the man was able to find a patron in George Westinghouse, Zod only knows how many other brilliant inventions were killed because Edison’s basic 19th century education made it impossible for him to see the profit in them.

I just don’t get the Musk hate. He’s nothing like Edison. If Edison wasn’t on the scene, nothing much would have changed except some other people would have gotten more historical credit. I see musk as a slightly less eccentric Howard Hughes.

Tesla and SpaceX are so far beyond the competition that without Musk on the scene we’d still be launching non reusable rockets and admiring the Chevy Volt as the pinnacle of electric car possibilities.
He’s a bit eccentric and weird, and I hope he doesn’t go full Howard Hughes, but he’s no Edison.