> Musk is eccentric sure, but at the end of the day the two companies are building emmission-free vehicles and trying to make humanity an interplanetary species. Both of these are pretty worth-while goals, imho.
This is like hearing people talking about how it's worth-while to give money to the church in the hope to secure themselves heaven.
Tesla and SpaceX are not young companies, they have been around for 20 years now. Quality of life provided to the American consumer in this timeframe? Zero, zip, none.
In the same timeframe Google became ubiquitous, Microsoft put a PC on every desk and Amazon became the way we shop.
The stark contrast between the presence of Tesla and Musk in the financial press (or every press he can summon really) and the absence of products in the real world is all an educated person needs to characterize this individual and the scheme he engineered.