Find someone else who is getting cargo to orbit at the cost / magnitude and happy to switch over my admiration for civilizational progress.

see, I'm sophisticated enough to have an opinion on Elon that's separate from my opinion on SpaceX. I also understand that he isn't moving that cargo to space himself? Thought that was spaceships?

true, but a gentle one. was hoping you had a distinct opinion about each. but you're right, I don't know shit about space cargo logistics. and maybe that's why I can't reconcile musk now with musk a decade ago; I'm too focused on the man and not his spaceship business.

1. Ad hominem :) 

2. And you’re not sophisticated enough to understand how SpaceX or any other frontier company makes progress, then. :)