Elon Musk: Capitalist Tech-Hero or Power-Hungry Sociopathic Menace?

Ok, credit where it is due, Musk has done an incredible job promoting clean energy. He’d have you believe he “founded” PayPal and Tesla (making himself the “inventor” of online payments and electric cars), while dabbling in futuristic visions of satellites, rockets, travel-tunnels, and neuroscience. But a closer look reveals that he was less the tech-genius and more the rich Sociopathic hype-machine, ala Donald Trump. This subject invites a look at Capitalism, which at its best is Industrialists-turned-philanthropists, at its worst rich brats seeking world domination.

Elon Musk had an uncanny knack for early investments in the right places, then supplanting the innovators with his own legacy. Later, he became a high-tech wunderkind, and still later a social media pariah.

Elon Musk-An Honest Resume: Is Elon Musk a tech value-added genius (Steven Jobs), or a guy that was helped by his father and lucky with investments (Donald Trump)? Is he headed down philanthropy lane (like Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates) or World Domination (like Julius Caesar?) A South African, known as an average student, with UPenn Bachelor degrees in Physics and Economics, he dropped out of Stanford in 1995, then began an amazingly fortuitous investing career. Here is a brief case history of Musk’s ventures:

Zip 2 Corp (1995): Elon, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded Zip 2 in Palo Alto in 1995, supposedly with substantial financing from their father Errol Musk. The company provided online City Guides for newspapers, and was…