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by oxplot·4y ago·view on hn ↗
> It's that I've drawn a different conclusion

You've drawn the wrong conclusions, evident by you leading your argument with "pedo guy".

> The fact that he works as many hours as he claims isn't a good thing.

Good is too vague. Good for what? It's probably not good for his general well being. But then neither is sitting and watching Netflix. Long hours is necessary to achieve his goals as he has laid out for Tesla and SpaceX. And not just for him, for everyone who works at those companies.

> It's not good that he has had so many romantic partners

That's his private business. You should perhaps look into swinging. That may broaden your horizons about what is good and isn't in respect to number of romantic partners.

> it isn't good that he has so many kids that he clearly isn't raising

He's raising them better than 99.9% of parents out there (and he better, given the resources he has).

> it isn't good that he is publicly so out of balance

That doesn't mean anything!

> It isn't good that he now is facing sexual misconduct allegations.

So did Assange, and then they dropped it. An allegation by itself is not a proof of anything. It is however a very good signal that someone is either getting too famous, too powerful and nothing else has worked to stop them.

> None of those things are respectable.

None of the things you listed are valid or of any significance.

> None of those things are OK for a role model to be modeling.

He's led people to do their beyond best effort to achieve things that have been deemed impossible over the last 20 years, and made the world better for everyone. That's what you should be paying attention to, not his number of romantic partners.

> We need to stop idolozong people for simply being rich and famous and good engineers

He's rich and famous, because he's a visionary and a leader. The fact that you think people idolize him for being "rich" is yet ANOTHER clear evidence that you know little of him. You're basically equating Musk with Kardashians.

> Elon isn't a good human.

Watch the movie Pleasantville. :)

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Your exactly right on one point. Elon is the Kardashian of the tech world.

He has achieved nothing we thought impossible. We thought all of these things were possible. His achievement is becoming a billionaire whole doing it. There have been many visionaries in the past, and will be many in the future, he doesn't have a monopoly on that. Correlation isn't causation. He hasn't been a visionary because he behaves in this way, he behaves in this way because he doesn't have any guardrails, consequences.

There are lots of tech moguls, visionary leaders, that don't behave like him and we couldn't even name them because theybhavent had any scandals, weird behavior, etc. Those are the true role models.