He’s P.T. Barnum
Musk is someone who wants to change the world, and he’s not like an average person, for good and bad. Trying to label him would be very inaccurate. If you want to get an idea of who he really is, there’s a biography available at your library.
He looks for whatever advantage he can get including government subsidies. For instance, he hires a lot of veterans and he gets subsidies for them.
If you don’t like the subsidies you should direct your hatred toward the politicians who created them. Musk is just playing by the rules of the game and he’s playing to win. Trump did the same when he was in business.
Stupid question
He can be both. Likely is.
Rentseeking huckster.
He’s an opportunist who knows how to make lots of money while having others pay for it by government fiat.
Crony extraordinaire.
Is Elon Musk a Capitalist or a Crony?Elon Musk a fraud like Ponzi except with taxpayer's money
YES!
The misspelled Crony. What they meant to say is PHony.
yes.
If you’re a smart capitalist you wind up being a crony. Free money and opportunities, that’s the stuff profit is made of.
It would be good, I think, to bear in mind that the word “capitalism” is a pejorative coined by the forces of evil to slander what von Hayek called “the extended order of human cooperation.” That is, how people act when they are free to choose.
Crony capitalism is a distortion of the extended order.
Where would Musk be without Govco bucks?
“Musk actually did say, last year, that Tesla does not need the $7,500-per-vehicle tax credit”
Yes, he said that as the subsidies were being cut back and with shareholders worried as the subsidies are about to end completely soon. Once you’ve sold a prescribed number of units, the subsidies end and you are supposed to make it on your own.
Musk says a lot things. Sometimes they are even true. He is a misused genius and innovator. He needs to be locked in a library/lab and kept away from assignments that require talking in public.
As smart and “visionary” he may be, he is a crony-capitalist, not a free enterprise capitalist. Minus state and federal subsidies for his over priced cars, his car business would have folded before now. Minus rhe billions in debt the state of Nevada saddled its taspayers with, his battery business in Nevada would not have happened. That only leaves the question of how much his government subsidized lines of business are subsidizing his other ventures, like SpaceX.
LOL! He’s not social enough to be a crony. There are plenty of other CEOs who do fit that profile, though.
He and his colleagues are doing the design work that foreigners won’t do. ...or can’t do. We’re keeping him for now, entertainment and all. ;-)