SV startup culture created these monsters, they're not absolved (and by extension neither is YC and HN). It validated "move fast and break things", as well as "ends justify the means" mentality. Who cares what laws and norms you trample on as long as it advances your cause, because your cause is saving the world. It's cute when it's 4 scrappy 20-something hackers in a garage working on an app, but it's metastasized into Bond villain danger when it comes to Musk.

If you want the responsibility to be properly deflected, you should now call Musk an "DC bureaucrat". That's technically what he is now after all.