Elon Musk is a twerp. Another guy with a lot of dollars, not much sense.
The real honours to anything regarding Tesla or Space X or whatever go to the unsung heroes who did all the work. Elon simply delegates
It's obvious in any industry. The higher the pay grade, the less work you actually do. Sure you get given a shit load of work but your job is simply to pass it on to your subordinates.
Elon is not a rocket scientist. Just a guy with ideas and the money to see them done
However no amount of money will make Mars colonisation happen. Real scientists have called him out on it
Sure, Elon Musk, might very well be "a twerp", "not a rocket scientist" and just "a guy with ideas and the money".
But how is it that he and not YOU, even with your famed ASI, did get "the money" and start Tesla and Space X.
I guess you could say that he took the risks with Zip2, X.com, which merged with Confinity and became PayPal to be bought for a cool $1.5 billion in 2002 and then started SpaceX.
And since then
He helped fund Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2003, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company that is now a subsidiary of Tesla, and operates as its chairman. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces, and is its CEO. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company.
Whether he's likeable or not Elon Musk is a lot more than SpaceX.
And what were YOU doing? Some say that "some people have all the luck" while
others get out there and make their own luck - many fail some succeed.
I too think that the Mars colonisation is a foolish idea but I would not be so rash as to claim that "no amount of money will make Mars colonisation happen".
But flat-earthers and other space-deniers hate him because his rockets help kill any idea that the earth could possibly be flat.