What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic.
He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right.
We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable.
Historically, countries build up surpluses in peace time and then go into debt to fight wars. We are going into more and more debt during peace time.
Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable. It is not. And someone has to do something about it.
I had a roommate once who said that people who get sick and need government assistance should just die.
Something about... "survival of the fittest."
Anyway - he got laid off like 2 months later and immediately applied for government unemployment.
I think about that alot.