I’ve long suspected Elon Musk of being a total fraud and I think we’re at the point that this can be confirmed. He’s a cult of personality, and a self-promoter. He talks a big game.
But, there is zero evidence on record of him being a genius in any way. I think of him as Donald Trump for progressive people. A bullshit artist who embodies the wildest dreams of his fans, in this case, to be wealthy and smart, and have sex with Johnny Depp’s ex-wife for a few months.
A fantastic rule of thumb is that people who are actually smart don’t usually say that they are smart because being really smart means you are aware of how dumb you are. Elon Musk constantly says he is smart. So does Donald Trump.
He’s the CEO of Tesla. A figurehead. I had assumed everyone knew this, despite Musk constantly trying to pass himself off as the brains behind the operation. He actually says “I developed” when talking about something that his team of engineers did. 
I recently listened to his interview with Joe Rogan as Musk claimed that around 80 percent of his time is devoted to personally engineering products for his companies. This is laughably inaccurate and a transparent lie. It appears the majority of his time is devoted to doing media appearances, which made this claim ironic since he said this while drinking whiskey and smoking weed on a two hour podcast.
Nikola Tesla, the namesake of Tesla Inc, was a bonafide genius. He lived in a different time, but it’s difficult to picture Nikola Tesla constantly going on Twitter to insult people for no apparent reason. It’s just not the behavior of a genius.
I think people fall for Elon Musk’s bullshit mostly because his name is Elon Musk. Nobody is named Elon Musk. It sounds like a character from Superman. You know, the scientist guy who is working to colonize Mars, Elon Musk. The name sounds futuristic. If his name was Dale Johnson nobody would give a shit what he was talking about. Oh, you’re going to build a bullet train, Dale? Cool, talk to me when the project is completed. Until then, shut the fuck up, Dale.
I’m not saying Elon Musk is some sort of imbecile. There’s just zero proof that he is elitely intelligent. He’s doing a really crappy job as the CEO of Tesla by the way. The company is not profitable. That’s probably why he had a public tantrum and threatened to take the company private on Twitter, which is not something you are supposed to do when you have a publicly traded company. This caught the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission who rightfully pointed out that Musk violated the law. I’m surprised he didn’t know his behavior was against the law, since he is such a genius.
Here is my bold prediction: Elon Musk is essentially operating a Ponzi scheme, and SpaceX, OpenAI, The Boring Company, and his other side projects exist as a vessel to launder money, as his main company, Tesla, is a sinking ship.
If you invest in any of these companies, you will not see a return on your money in the long run, in my opinion.
How did Elon Musk become Elon Musk? Was he interested in hyperloops from a young age? Well it turns out his father was an electromechanical engineer and that really got his foot in the door.
His family moved to South Africa shortly after Apartheid was instituted and left shortly after it was abolished, meaning his family owes their fortune to slavery. They still own a diamond mine in Zambia, by the way.
So Elon Musk was one of those uber wealthy trust fund boarding school type of kids. The type of kid who was born in South Africa but had a Canadian mother, a grandmother from Minnesota, and a British grandfather. If you’re doing the math, that’s old money, and in this case, dirty money, and it’s the kind of money that leads a fairly average dude to convince himself that he’s a supergenius.
Musk would have you believe that, apart from having sex with Amber Heard, he spends the majority of his time working out difficult equations on a drafting table. In reality, nobody knows what he really does, and it’s highly possible he does nothing.
There’s really no difference between Elon Musk and a politician who claims that once he is elected, everyone will get a big house.
Donald Trump really did absolutely nothing as a job, outside of his nearly constant media appearances. That is a job, I guess. But when your job is pretending that you have a job, your job is utter bullshit. Elon Musk is like one of those rappers who only raps about how good of a rapper he is.
I found Musk’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience to be highly nauseating. Joe Rogan (I love Joe Rogan) has clearly drunk the Elon Musk Kool-Aid. He didn’t bat an eye when Musk posited that he may have a genetic mutation that makes him smarter than everyone else, nor did he press Musk for any details on any of his outlandish claims such as that you can build a subway system 10,000 feet under the earth’s surface, when anyone with a modicum of common sense understands that the earth at this depth is far too unstable.
But that’s what Musk does. He says things. Things which will never, ever, happen.
While Joe Rogan (again, I love Joe Rogan), was busy fanning out over Elon Musk, I wondered if anyone was thinking the same thing as me: This dude, even though he takes a long and affected pretentious pause before every question he answers, as though he is trying to distill his brilliance down to something that may be easily digested by the layperson, is not saying anything that any average engineer at any average company could say.
Literally any person of average intelligence could have read a few articles on electric cars and artificial intelligence and came off as knowledgable on the subject as Elon Musk did, and likely without resorting to that maddening purposeful long pause before each statement.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought that to be considered a genius you had to in some way demonstrate that you are a genius. Not in 2018. You call yourself a genius and enough people will go along with it. Look at Kanye West.
Musk is not the real deal. Sure, it would be great if some humanoid of dubious nationality could swoop down and save humanity, but this isn’t the guy. This is a guy who can’t deliver electric cars on time. I’m not saying manufacturing electric cars is a walk in the park, but this asshole is talking about colonizing Mars while failing at running a car company.
If you invest in any of Musk’s companies, you will eventually lose that money. I predict it will take about ten years for this all to come crashing down and for your Tesla stock to be priced around that of Theranos, at which point I will gloat about how I was right, and nobody will give a shit.
Elon Musk will probably be on a dinner date with one or more of the Olsen twins discussing his plans to make a robot that is really good at making sushi.