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Why rely on one man?

The goal is not to rely on one man, but regardless of what you think of him, he has proven to be very effective at bringing big ideas to reality.

> very effective at bringing big ideas to reality

With specific reference to Mr Musk and commuter rail, this is the opposite of reality. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297667

Maybe the OP is taking about some other Musk's ideas brought to reality, like fascism in the US.

True, but I don't regard that as an original Musk idea. It's been done before elsewhere and, to a lesser extent, done before in the US. He's not even the first racist head of a US car company, that was Henry Ford.

Ah-hahahahahaha.

Good one.

This message was not written from my hyperloop commute to Mars.

Sure, but who do you know who actually built a functioning rocket launch company privately AND also built a leading EV company when it was unheard of?

I agree that he also has stupid, botched ideas, but pretending like he’s incompetent is just cope.

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