[King_Corey]

Not a hero, just someone with bigger aspirations than a hedge fund manager who doesn’t hire anyone, just pushes electronic bits around for nothing.

Musk is an employer who builds futures.
I like the Fisher Sand and Gravel Company’s President and CEO Tommy Fisher, from BUILD THE WALL, they are really out there doing it. But for HERO, nope. I was just wondering if you could name someone like Tommy Fisher, and apparently you can’t.
3M is another company doing R&D, and I actually own that stock. They are doing real work on future products. I’m happy with that as well. As for P.T. Barnum, he sold the show, and yeah people who went in thinking it was real were duped. Musk is actually selling a real product, stuff goes actually into space (18 times to the ISS that the our federal government can’t get into space without the russians!)

So while I understand your analogy, it seems like critical of something that is actually produced. It’s not quite the SHAM-WOW here, it is an actual car, actual rockets, actual solar roofing, actual batteries, actual flame throwers. You may not like the product, but if it was fraud, he’d be out of business.

[jdsteel]

Phineas Taylor Barnum (/ˈbɑːrnəm/; July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).[1] He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, though he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me".[2] According to his critics, his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers."[2] He is widely credited with coining the adage "There's a sucker born every minute",[3] although no proof can be found of him saying this. Sounds about right.