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Did he actually launch or land rockets? Or did he hire a bunch of people who actually did that?

I'm not saying that there isn't skill involved with hiring smart people, but I don't think it's correct to act like he single-handedly invented self-landing rockets.




He bet his entire fortune on that, for one thing.


I spent my entire life savings on lottery tickets, and one of them wins the Powerball, does that mean that I am somehow gifted in managing my money? Or would it mean I just got lucky?

Elon's stuff might be due to some kind of "skill", but that's not implied by him "betting his entire fortune" and winning.


Just an edit: it was a hypothetical, I meant to write “if I spent my life savings on lottery tickets”. I don’t actually play the lottery.




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