Is Elon Musk actually a good business man, or simply a good conman? | The News Agents

Is Elon Musk a good businessman right now? Is he someone you would trust to take over a company, an existing company, and make it happen? And I'm not sure that the answer to that is clear. He screwed up Twitter. He screwed up the federal government. He's a good con man. He's a good front man. You think he's a con man? Well, I think he's like a confidence man. I think he's like, he's out there. He's a carnival buster. He's a good salesman. He's a good promoter. But when I say that, not even saying that, when you see people say things like that, the Elon bros have said and they say this guy is literally the richest guy in the world he's one of the most successful in the world he can do something I think that he's good at some things but I don't think he's like the universally great manager he's not uber rich yeah he's just like he's probably not the best manager of a large organization it made me wonder look if all I knew of Elon Musk was what I saw at Twitter and in the government it would cause me to wonder who's actually managing Tesla like who's actually running Tesla and maybe that's not fair or maybe there're two Elon Musk, the one from 10 years ago and the one now uh but but it's the just as a as a management problem what do you think the u.s government was so strange it was it was never it's not like oh that's an interesting idea could have worked it was never going to work he said he was going to cut two trillion dollars out of a seven trillion dollar budget. He then proceeded to attack 20%, just 20% of the government. So you couldn't, you weren't going to do it. He was leaving, he was left to set aside, left off the table. Well, not least because so much of the federal government is on the budget. And military spending, which is basically off the table. That's right. So he was never going to achieve what he said he was going to achieve. And then to just take a handful of kids, age 19 to 28, send them in and say, just cut, without really any explicit instructions about how to cut and they didn't know anything about it they did bizarre things and it was i mean if you saw it you would say that's not possible that could not have happened inside the united states government it was friends of friends of friends it was it was the someone some of them worked at like SpaceX there were young young people like young computer people but it was sometimes sometimes it was just like someone knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who knew Elon and they wanted to be there And it was a social network. It was just a, it was pure social network And they would send to Elon these people notes were over zero