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by JumpinJack_Cash 527 days ago
Yes, in the same way Howard Hughes lost it.

Mr. Hughes contribution however is valued because commercial aviation as an industry succeeded and with all his flaws he was part of it.

The jury is still out on all industries Musk is involved in namely: Electric Vehicles, Commercial Space Exploration and AI.

If they flop or the public rebels against them it's entirely possible that only the negative flaws of its character will remain as a testimony of his permanence at the top of the Forbes 400

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Thing about Hughes is that he was mostly private in his madness; he had strong views on the proper size order in which to eat peas, say, but he didn’t try to insist that the general public followed it.