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Fun fact: Musk isn't an engineer at all.
Engineering qualifications are pretty specific, and usually the term shouldn't be used loosely if those qualifications aren't there. Musk's education ended at the Baccalaureate level, but crucially in Physics and Economics. He pushes himself as some kind of engineering mastermind, but it's hard to pin down why.
Contrary to popular belief, he also is not a founder of Tesla.
Technically he is founder of Tesla though. He just didn't found it.
For some reason, in the US you can buy the title of "founder of X". He just bought if from the actual founders.
I mean, he found out that there was a company called Tesla and then became CEO…
That would make him the finder of Tesla. And to be honest, that's all anyone should refer to him as.
He discovered it! That puts him on a level with Columbus!
You mean in the way that Columbus of course did not "discover" America (people had been living there for (tens of?) thousands of years, he was just the first white dude who started murdering the people living there)?
Of course! And part of my joke is that being on the same level as Columbus isn't really a compliment, considering what an asshole Columbus was.
Yeah. The Wiki offers the more sane answer.
To be fair, Engineer isn't a protected title in the U.S.
A Professional Engineer is, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone claim Musk is a P.E.
Titles ending on engineer is so bloated, basically anything within IT is an engineer. A support level 1 engineer. A software engineer. A Quality Assurance engineer. And the list goes on, historical reason being corporate pay bands being based on titles, hence engineers were offered better pay
Prompt Engineer is driving me insane.
Sandwich engineer
I can get behind this.
They'll be calling themselves prompt artistes next.
Fair
he is a engineer of ketamine usage,
I was at Queen's U doing engineering physics when he was there doing theoretical physics. We weren't the same year, but crossed paths a few times. At the time, struggling students would flip flop back and forth between the two degrees because the engineers needed more courses, but only need a 50% to pass a course while the science degree needed 60%. So some people would flip to take the shortest path to a degree. I don't know if Elon was like that, but he might have gone through most of the engineering program. From what I hear, working with him is hell as he has to be right and any challenge to an idea can easily get you fired. So everyone has to just go along with every shit thing he comes up with. The annoying thing is that he seems to get stuff done somehow - the advancements of EVs and low orbit satellite comms and reusable rockets can't be denied even though he is clearly deranged and a horrible person.