His work is a result of pain and sacrifices to return manufacturing to the US, and the US to space, and make life multi-planetary.
I wanted to explain the difference because many people do not understand. Most tech bros, and most interpreneurs on the planet, do whatever capital tells them to do. Whatever their investors tell them to do. Whatever they think will make them money.
Now the big difference is Elon Musk made his own capital to begin with and put all of it, all of his skin, in the game that he believes in. Now these are some major problems because most people dabble with other people's money, it's okay, they can fail and do some more with some other people's money.
It's difficult to put all that you have on Earth to pull off some impossible task. Not for days but for years and decades. That's major pain and suffering that very few people are capable of.
Now go and do that against major enemies. Balls. No wonder he hates bureaucrats because they've never been in the pain game and come home at 5:30.
There're some professions where you actually go to work after you put in the 8 hours. And the work is not done at 4:00 a.m., it's not done at 8:00 a.m. and at 3:00 p.m. the next day you haven't even scratched the surface.
And after 10 or 20 years you are barely starting.