2) How do you know if Musk's help wasn't helpful? Do you work at the rescue site?
Very few of the people criticising Musk had the ability to do anything to help the kids. He is in a rare situation to have the flexibility and resources to make significant financial and/or logistical contributions to literally any cause he notices. In this case, he did it in the most self-aggrandizing way possible, while appearing to make no actual contribution.
True, but I recognize that I don't have any relevant skills or any way to help from the other side of hte pacific.
The main difference is I'm not tweeting about how I'm totally going to solve this, and then getting credit doing pretty much just that.