[everybodyknows]

Also an apparent high-level logic flaw:

> ... the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do.

But it is already failing now, Musk has apparently many years to live, so how could he hope to escape accountability? OTOH, if the locus of the fleecing is actually a cabal of highly-paid but unknown managers within SpaceX, they would have reason to keep the cash flowing as long as possible.

[LorenPechtel]

I see no reason to think it was a scam. I think he believed it, but what works with Kerbals doesn't work on Earth. We already saw he wasn't listening to reason when he launched the first one without a water deluge.