To each their own. I'm not a die-hard Elon fan, but I respect what he has done. I watched the very last video you provided and I disagree with most of it. It's so easy to dismiss someone's accomplishments; to brush aside monumental achievements as if they were trivial (the Churchill comment seemed particularly silly). I'm not about to fact check all the things the video presenter threw out there, but a few were either very subjectively opinionated or misleading. That said, if you dislike the man, that is perfectly okay. I'm perfectly happy to have history decide (and I don't really have any stakes in the game either way). However, if he is able to safely and successfully bring humanity to Mars, this is all moot.
Well said. I don't 'dislike' him so to speak, but more dislike how he tries to appeal to everyone as some kind of eccentric genius whose many projects are clearly nonsensical, unoriginal, Impractical, and highly flawed which people instead take to be some kind of revolution in a particular industry. He's all about speaking, Not actually doing with these supposed projects - Especially when it comes to philanthropy and pretending to give a shit about people's conditions when in reality he is just seeking publicity. But yeah, "if he is able to safely and successfully bring humanity to Mars", Then I agree, this can all be put behind him I suppose.
Pretty much. I still find it rather interesting that for all the flak he gets for re-branding unfeasible concepts like the Hyperloop vacuum train, Elon is still well ahead of many other vainglorious technocratic billionaires in terms of having their vision yielding practical and tangible results (even when the project is ultimately a failure) and not be stuck in development hell. Comparably speaking, Bezos' attempts at entering the aerospace industry have so far yielded a handful of test flights and photo ops involving a giant space dildo that's barely out of the computer rendering phase, while in the same amount of time SpaceX has since graduated to making (relatively) regular docking trips to the ISS with a reusable everything with the aim of lowering launch costs.
I would also add that Elon is NOT a philanthropic industrial. His goal is make money. Tesla is there to make money, what's around it is just brilliant marketing. So, kudos to him.
The only guarantee on the pathway to success is failure. One might claim that he's had his fair share of successes sprinkled in there as well. The guy seems like he has quite a bit on his plate already. If he had worked exclusively on any one of PayPal, Tesla or SpaceX he would already be rightfully considered a massive success.