A guy who made an awful payment system whose only noteworthy component was that you didn't have to send money orders to strangers by post anymore if you used it and runs not one, but two (formerly three) fabulously unprofitable businesses that suck off the government teat is not humanity's last hope.
Yea, but he does it more efficiently and at lower cost than the previous/current dependents.
If you really wanna talk about the government teat...(what he's saying isn't new though)
(further reading on the cause can be found
here)
I love the idea that he's doing SpaceX out of the goodness of his heart to preserve humanity. Sure hope his stockholders agree.
if he were simply doing it for profit or to maximize returns for his stockholders, I doubt he would've come so perilously close to bankruptcy so many times
Money doesn't seem to be the main motive for a guy that could've easily "retired" after Paypal alone