Paul Krugman has the perfect metaphor for the career of Elon Musk
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June 17, 2026
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burnerRhodov3
The Model Y (the best-selling vehicle on earth across all fuel types) Reusabile falcon 9, Grid-Scale Battery Deployments, Americas charging infra, Mechazilla, Starlink,
haaz
SpaceX have launched more rockets than NASA, ESA, Russia, China, and every other organisation in the world ever, combined. They offer super fast internet almost anywhere on the globe through Starlink. The Model Y has been the best selling car in the world for the past 3 years, partly due to the fact that it has by far the best self-driving. Xai built the largest AI training cluster in the world in 4 months, then doubled it in 3 months. All of this would be impressive for one person to do. He is doing all of this at the same time. He is by far the greatest founder of his generation and it's not even close. Everyone who says otherwise is out of touch with reality and should not be trusted.
m463
this is sort of a clickbait title. the actual article: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-human-ponzi-sch... says: We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.