Yuck. He could have just used some lame excuse like lower taxes or less business regulations or whatever and I would have just shrugged and said, eh I guess it makes sense what with the enormous facility they’ve built down there. But no, he had to make this about politics.
That’s a separate question from the one I thought we were discussing.
It’s all unverifiable to us. But at that point you have to remember the elephant in the room: his companies’ multiple successes, pushing forwards the state of the art, in multiple domains, in a commercially viable way.
I’ll remind you that my previous comment used wording such as “I suspect”, and “you can imagine”. I’ll now, off the top of my head, put a number on it. I’m 85% confident that the primary explanation for his otherwise unlikely run of successes, is that he’s a genius of an engineering manager.
What’s your primary explanation, and confidence level?
I consider myself anti- conspiracy theory. When I encounter them in various comment sections, I quite often briefly reply, politely correcting people. My guess would be that such people are more likely than average to dislike Musk.
As for me, I don’t adore him. And I have multiple criticisms, and things I’d want to learn more about before judging him too positively overall.