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He doesn't actually want progress. He wants power and wealth for himself. Public transit is an equalizer, it serves normal people.

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Relax man. He's a bipolar weirdo who isn't always likable but progress doesn't always come from likeable people. And the fact of the matter is he has actually delivered on a bunch of stuff I thought I'd never see in my lifetime.

What kinds of things he's delivered do you have in mind?

Let's see. If Paypal was his only legacy he would have already done 99% more than most people but then he went on to build a car company that was the best selling electric car brand in the world for a decade and in the process standardized not just electric charging but the plug we're all using today. Then they released a home battery with a sub 10 ms ATS which is necessary for seamless in-house grid/off grid transition. Finally the push for a reusable rocket booster was entirely a management decision on his part. If the next words out of your mouth are "he didn't do that, his engineers did" please come up with something more original. This isn't reddit.

His company was bought by PayPal and he was fired shortly thereafter. giving him credit for that is a stretch.

"fired" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

> in the process standardized not just electric charging but the plug we're all using today

Wat? Are you talking about NACS? If so, a minority of non-Tesla EVs currently on the road use it in the US, and AFAIK zero outside of North America.

And even in the US, the vast majority of EV charging stations are AC and use J1772, a SAE standard that predates Tesla's existence.

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