What is truly amazing is that this is becoming normal.
I think they do indeed a lot of good - however, launching a classified military spy satellite is not one of it, in my opinion.
Musk clearly isn't a charlatan as he's trying his very best to make his unrealistic plans a reality, and has already succeeded tremendously.
Is Musk crazy? He might be. But he's earnestly crazy.
At what point do you say "he's made so much money for us that we'll give him at least one major fuckup before we start trying to reign him in."?
As you hear opinions from a larger and larger group, the ideas start more and more to resemble noise, distributed according to some statistical law.