Okay, it seems you have made up your mind and it will be hard to change that, because - as I understand it - everything is on the market, stupidity and everyone else. Musk is just a spoilt rotten brat, good for nothing.
So be it.
Just for my fun, I still reply to some of your statements:
That’s just a means of perspective. Like kids not having problems, because it’s just a lost toy.
- Especially Tesla is investing lots of money in factories and expansion. As that is costing lots of money, it generates loss. It is taking risks, but also showing conviction, which might be part of the cult of personality.
- So, you do agree to me, that it’s the personality, that is making the difference. Or why would all thos subsidies keep Tesla and SpaceX afloat, while they don’t do so with other companies?
Since when was Tesla a successful company? According to wikipedia (I know, it’s a weak source, but the one available on short notice) he was responsible for 98% of the funding, when Tesla was founded in 2003.
Even if that would be true, he still kept those ideas of electirc cars and space travel alive and made them a possibility; be it only be providing money of a giant ego to make others invest.
Maybe e.g. the vision, that a company selling electric-cars can be successful; and that this company also produces the batteries and establishes the infrastructure for their cars as well.
Keeping this concept alive, believing in it’s success and collecting and spending lots of money on it, in my opinion, counts for a vision.
While I don’t exactly like Elon Musk, I believe, that electric cars wouldn’t be where they are todoy without him. And the same goes for space-travel.
So, it’s not exactly neccessary to be the first one to have an idea; if you are the one turning it into a success, you still deserve credit for this accomplishment.
And that’s it from me, as we already are very much off-topic.