He's being attacked for glory-hounding + poor-mouthing the successful rescue. His "help" was a virtue-signalling publicity stunt. Contra Ayn Rand, sometimes people hate you because you are a dick, not just b/c "great." Elon Musk is not Howard Roark, FFS.https://twitter.com/patrissimo/status/1017098712768602112 …
Virtue signaling is bad when it replaces actual virtue, and it is good when it demonstrates actual virtue for deserved positive response. The latter is virtue signaling harnessed for social gain (like rich people donating their time to save kids' lives), which is a good thing.
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Virtue for the sake of signalling is not virtue, it's PR. This was no different from Al Sharpton showing up in Ferguson, except that people actually wanted Sharpton there (God help them).
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Virtue for the sake of signaling (trying to genuinely help) is a helluva lot better than vice for the sake of signaling (attacking people, trying to get them fired, restricting speech) Not sure whether to be glad or sad that you are taking anti-virtue signaling too far...
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The argument you're not engaging here is that the mini-sub is an example of the former type of virtue signaling rather than the latter. Note the combination of extravagant signalling and no actual benefit provided. There is harm here; Gresham's law applies to virtue signaling.
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Sure, if there was no chance of benefit, then it was a waste. I don't consider that proven, but if you see it that way, I agree it's wasteful virtue signaling. Still, your critique is not the same as many others' critiques, which seem to be envy-based.
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I wish Musk was the real deal - we need more class-traitors to break the networks of nepotism & rent-seeking. We need real tycoons. Sadly, EM's part of the problem - rent-seeker, insider pushing vaporware for tax credits & loans from banks we'll end up bailing when he crashes.
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