No. Screw Elon Musk. How many people with just as much, if not more, potential than he has grow up, live and die in obscurity because they weren't lucky enough to be heirs to a fortune in slave emeralds? How many of his employees deserve just as much praise and respect as he gets, only to go unremarked because we believe that in the Great Man theory of capitalism, only the one on top gets the glory?

If there's a tragedy here, it isn't how far Elon has fallen, it's how far above us the rich are to begin with. That one person commands as much power as Elon Musk does is an insult to human dignity. And people talk about him as if he's a divine being. The smartest man who ever lived. More brilliant than Einstein. More cunning than Jobs. More innovative than Da Vinci. The man in whose hands the very course of technological society and human evolution are held. He, and only he, is responsible for Tesla. He, and only he, is responsible for SpaceX. He literally built his rockets in a cave from a pile of scrap.

But it turns out he's just an asshole with money. The rich don't deserve pity any more than they deserve privilege, and maybe the crumbling of the facade that is Elon Musk will help people see that. Is this the one you called Messiah? Behold the man.