PR For The Rich and Famous

Elon Musk has made plenty of confidently wrong predictions over the years. I will even grant him some credit and say that earlier he probably even believed some of them, though saying  that he believed something isn't much different than saying Trump believed something. They are actually quite similar.

But nothing he said would have mattered all that much if both tech and mainstram journalists didn't treat his utterances as the proclamations of a genius.  And, then, being complicit in the con, remaining unwilling to revisit their own role.

There are a couple of points in time when Elon would have gone bust if not for his hype team in the press and some financial interventions by either deluded or corrupt (both) elected officials.

Elon barely talks about Mars anymore. It was his whole thing!