Well, he is quite capable in overselling and creating a hype and a fanbase and pushing people around.
Without him his companies wouldn't have gotten the attention they got and the vision of self driving cars and colonizing Mars certainly got to motivation of engineers working there.
Making himself richer by overpromising the idea of him (personally, of course) building a great future to tech- and finance bros
Dude would live a better life and leave a better legacy if he would focus more on chilling, empathy, and building rockets to get humanity to the stars
He's the richest person in the world and wastes his time with political bullshit, while he is one of the very few and privileged who have the resources at their disposal to actually attempt and support grand experiments
> His expertise is in lying, pompousness, fraud, and exemplifying the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Yeah, but that is precisely why he is asked such questions. He gives a more engaging to the Average Joe response than an expert does. It doesn't matter if the response is out to lunch.
The question you responded to was trying to figure out where his expertise didn't overlap with the intent of the people questioning him.
