@rodhilton
Except that the cars and rockets are pretty good.

I am increasingly convinced that this is due to being surrounded by personnel who know how to guardrail his mercurial hijinks into "emissions test" fart jokes or using one of his cars as a static payload mass test. But I think it's fair to say that without a lot of the money he's poured into Tesla or SpaceX we'd still be lamenting the demise of the GM EV1 and the space program writ large rather than looking forward to wider deprecation of cars fueled by fresh-squeezed fossils and a return to Luna by humankind.