What's the narrative around the "idiots who got lucky" part, more specifically? I don't think I've heard this argument (in fact I thought the idea of Tesla of making a sporty electric car was a pretty damn savvy one). Is this just the general hatred of Musk (who, to be clear, didn't come up with this idea, but did buy into it early on) turning into irrational "everything he's done that's good must have been by accident"?
I have certainly encountered variations on it from multiple technologies. There does seem to be a perception amongst younger people that electric cars are just a thing who's time has come. Without seeing the struggles that people went through to make that time come, it is quite easy to see how someone could miss that being in the right place at the right time happened because of the effort it took for there to be a right place and right time.
Specifically with Elon Muck, media coverage and public opinion are a mass of contradictions. He's the man single handedly destroying his businesses as he is on-track to becoming the worlds first trillionaire. He's just taking credit for the effort of the hard working and clever people who work from him, while seemingly being personally responsible for any incident that occurs.
I realise the man is a walking bag of neuroses with a can-do attitude, but I sometimes wish publications would restrict their reporting to the bad(and indeed good if he decides to do that again) things he actually does, rather than run mutually exclusive accusations.
