Gary

Legacy media is now pushing another narrative: “Virtually all of Elon Musk’s wealth came from government help.” This is completely false. Government contracts are not subsidies. SpaceX wins contracts because it offers the best product at the lowest price. NASA pays SpaceX for real launches, real cargo missions, and real astronaut transport, not charity. SpaceX is expected to get less than 5% of its revenue from NASA this year. Add up every government incentive Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, and it is still less than 2% of the value of Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla did not become the world’s most valuable car company because of tax credits. It became huge because it built better EVs, better software, better batteries, and the best charging network. And when the $7,500 EV tax credit was removed, Tesla sales increased. The real reason they’re obsessed with Elon Musk is that he exposed how irrelevant they have become. People no longer wait for newspaper editors, TV anchors, or corporate journalists to tell them the truth. Legacy media lost its monopoly on information. Now all they have left is clickbait, outrage, and anti-Elon narratives. And that’s exactly why the trust in media is at an all time low.

There are many good X articles lately, some superb, intellectual, and honest. They are 1000x better than opinion columns in newspapers. I noticed my chat group has more X article links than links from MSM. In the era of agentic AI, speed in reacting to truthful information is everything, or gradient descent can quickly go in another direction. A rare sign of enlightenment.