> a con artist

You mean like every capitalist who has amassed huge sums of money ever?

> pretends to be the founder

You mean like every other billionaire who leveraged his wealth to buy out companies (Berkshire Hathaways business model is based on this)

> running it into the ground

You mean the first auto maker to capture the electric market?

> Outright scams

I've seen some of the solar roof installs and they are higher quality and objectively better than "solar pannels" which are a scam too.

And the boring comparing makes me lol.

I understand why people don't like rich people and that's fine, but his brand "elon musk" really is changing the public landscape and his companies are innovating and creating technology that even the US government can't do by itself. You may not like him because he's rich, but for bettter or for worse he's shaping a lot of industries in the US.