Elon Musk is just the Henry Ford of rockets and hopefully electric cars

Elon Musk is just the Henry Ford of rockets and hopefully electric cars.

Why does everyone hate him so much?

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Fakes shit: youtube.com/watch?v=yf_MtzWY6RY

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>what is sub-cooled liquid oxygen

he's a troll you doofus

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He's a huckster with more than a touch of conman about him, but I don't hate him. I do hate his credulous fanbois.

"The Henry Ford of rockets and electric cars" is a great description for him, assuming he actually delivers on the Model 3.
People here hate him because he's extremely successful, extremely good at marketing and optics, and most of all his fanbase is extremely loud and annoying, and are the same people that Veeky Forums would describe as popsci retards.
Veeky Forums is contrarian, news at 11.

gets credit from annoying fanboys for work he didn't even create and his workerbase and family is treated like shit by him

to play into /that/ circlejerk, he's the Edison of the 21st century

Because everyone is acting like he actually designs the rockets and electric cars. He doesn't; the employees who work for him do.

He puts hype before all else which results in him having obnoxious OMG!SCIENCE! fans that don't know shit about science, engineering, mathematics, or in most case, even common sense. I hope he succeeds in all of his ventures but I can still hate the hype machine and personality cult he has built up around himself.

If he didn't want to be hated he shouldn't have started one of the most dishonest companies in the history of private space travel. Seriously each launch following the Falcon family as they “revolutionize the launch industry” has been indistinguishable from the rest. Aside from the meme landings, the company’s only party trick has been to overwork and underpay its employees to reduce launch costs, all to make the mythical “full and rapid reuse” seem effective.

Perhaps the die was cast when Musk vetoed the idea of ambitious yet realistic missions like Red and Grey Dragon; he made sure the company would never be mistaken for an innovative force to anything or anybody, just ridiculously questionable government contracts for his companies. SpaceX might be profitable (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-NASA in its refusal of wonder, science and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the landings are cool though
"No!"
The camerawork is dreadful; the landings of the charred boosters are boring. As I watch, I noticed that every time a Falcon 9 lands, Musk said either “self-sustaining civilization on Mars” or “imagine if you had a 747 and you threw it away after one flight.”

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time one of those phrases was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Musk's mind is so governed by clichés that he has no other style of thinking. Later I read a poorly-written news story on SpaceX by some fat web blogger. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are watching these launches now, surely they will work for SpaceX in the future and they too can have paychecks based off of government handouts." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you are a SpaceX fan, you are, in fact, trained to be a mindless supporter of government-funded billionaires.

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