It's hard to dismiss a lot of what's going on right now. Many of us have lived through the dot com bubble as well as 2008.

With respect to SpaceX / Tesla Musk has always been a charlatan at varying levels. He sold FSD for over a decade claiming: next year the entire time. He also made similar claims with DOGE. If accountability mattered Musk wouldn't be where he is today, yet here we are. But, I can't wait for our space data centers that surround our planet with more garbage!

But beyond Musk I don't think many people actually pay any attention how bleak things look on the credit side in the US [0]. Again, if you experienced 2008, the dot com bubble or both - well, I don't think this impending train wreck is going to be any less painful.

[0] https://chartive.org/visualizations/us-federal-debt-percent-...

Ignore musks projections which he always says are wildly optimistic, and look at the actual progress. SpaceX should be a marvel everyone is cheering for.

Calling him a charlatan is just not accurate. Charlatans never deliver anything that works. Musk and his companie have delivered results more than any single person on earth, always behind stated schedule, but still delivered(1). Also failures, yes. He's just not a charlatan, it's not an accurate description.

(1) Except maybe fsd with his idiotic vision only bullshit which is the opposite of his proclaimed first principles. I'm guess he'll lose that one in the medium run if he doesn't change his mind fast