People’s beef with Musk has much more to do with ideology than true measurable impact on humanity, and is part of why you essentially can’t say anything like this on Reddit. People will so blindly follow the misleading headlines out of existing hate that they don’t care to acknowledge how media has been trying to absolutely bury him in negative sentiment because he began showing rightward political leanings a year or two prior to the Twitter acquisition.

For example, just the other day when Ukraine was upset that Starlink “disrupted” their counterattack on Russia, headlines everywhere read that Elon himself “turned off” Starlink for them.

Not only did he not turn it off—it was never on in the area they were trying to operate—but several people explained that SpaceX doesn’t even have the authority to have opened up service in that area without consulting with the US gov’t. Elon literally had nothing to do with that, yet anyone explaining that gets downvoted and any comments describing how he has way too much power and is pushing for Russia to win gets upvoted and reinforced by replies.

I think he is a goofball narcissist that seems to have realized over the last couple of years that he enjoys controversy. But between people genuinely trying to push the narrative that he was born rich because he got $28k of his $200k of investment money for Zip2 from his dad in ‘98, or that he literally has no business sense because one of his 5 multimillion dollar businesses was not one he founded himself, it is clear that the hate of who he is as a person has caused people to very much stretch the truth about his track record.

I think his handling of Twitter has been a complete joke and he’s arguably done everything he can to turn media against him. But he has definitely made very positive impacts on the world and the fact that pointing to that on Reddit means people suddenly believe you must support everything he’s ever done is immature and obnoxious. I hate group think.