Why is needing the DOE loan always a talking point?
It is not a sin to enlist the help of others to achieve your goals.
It is not a sin to enlist the help of others to achieve your goals.
Money is our economy’s way of rewarding those of us with outsized skills. It’s far from perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got. Is Tesla and Elon the best place to put that $465m? Maybe, maybe not. But it was the best we had at the time, and I certainly don’t see anyone better than him now.
But I don’t think even a majority of the populace had an issue with it anyway - it’s always the fringe extremists that get most of the press, they tend to be a lot more quotable than the ‘meh, I guess that’s fine’ folks.