Musk has never taken a salary from Tesla or any of his other companies. He has not sold any stock in Tesla except to pay Federal and California 53% income and payroll taxes on exercising stock options this year. He lives the life closer to a pauper than his billionaire rivals. Hi massive net worth is entirely in stock and share in his companies. While criticizing him for the "net worth" of over 200 billion that he has gained from the success of Tesla, a great deal his doing. you forget the 800 billion or so that he has earned for fellow investors and employees in Tesla. I'm sick of the grossly uninformed criticism, much of which is generated by a media that hates him for not spending a dime on advertising.
Betterment of humanity? Name anyone who has invested all of their own money to electrify the auto industry, developed artificial intelligence based self-driving in beta today plus robotics using the world's largest AI supercomputer, to expand solar energy, to develop massive grid storage to smooth solar and to cover peak demand without starting backup fossil-based generation, to deploy high speed internet to any location on Earth, to drive the cost of orbital lift down by reusable boosters (110 successful recoveries to date), to give the US the ability to man and supply the Space Station, to contract NASA to deliver astronauts to the moon in Starships that can carry 100, embarked on a long term plan to deliver civilization to Mars, and to develop computer communication with the brain with the goal of solving paralyzed patients ability to walk.
Go ahead and keep up the nonsense.
This is unrelated to Dish but needed to be said.
arstechnica.com
