So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.

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    but I love that he created the market for electric cars

    This is like saying OJ Simpson invented Smuckers Uncrustables so he’s not all bad…

    Firstly, it’s not true.

    Secondly, even if it was true, it doesn’t amount to enough to celebrate him.

    Because putting peanut butter and jelly in a sandwich was already a thing that was popular. It just became worse for the environment and more expensive for consumers by individuall packaging them and requiring them to be frozen.

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      It is true. Tesla paved the way.

      Who said celebrate him. I said I’m glad he did it.

      I get you have a binary view of the world. As you mature you may outgrow that but the world is wildly complex.

      We wouldn’t have modern electric cars without musk. It took someone willing to take the risk and the big 3 weren’t doing it.

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        Oh wow…

        I mean I was going off of actual facts that you were wrong…

        But “it is true” completely changed my mind, without Musk buying a company that already existed, we never would have gotten EVs!

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          Who had a large scale consumer product before Tesla?

          Your claim he didn’t create the market. Who had the market before Tesla? Who else had large scale production before Tesla ?

          Who has the largest market share?

          Let’s see you prove your claim.

          Tesla would have folded if Elon was not part of it. People only started to take notice after the success of Tesla.