Time to wake up and smell the coffee --- Musk's primary skill is marketing and con artistry.

People buy into his grandiose visions that are really just ploys to move money from investor's pockets into his.

Paywalled original source: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/23/elon-musks-vis...

10-minute and 6-minute video: https://youtube.com/@theeconomist

My biggest surprise from the video was that he seemed slow to respond to questions.

On July 25, 2026, Elon Musk called the interviewer (Zanny Minton Beddoes) "a traitor to the West" [1]. For context, Musk periodically affirms and reposts calls for murder of anti-remigration government officials [2], non-white refugees, and other non-white immigrants [3], referring to such government officials as "traitors" in the sense of "race traitor" [4][5].

[1] https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2081157083437703578

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

[3] https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mrjzbr...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_traitor