Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk

The author argues that Elon Musk's ability to build and scale world-leading manufacturing and technology companies in the United States, including SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, resembles a superhero comic, and that this concentration of power is dangerous. Hmm, I need to avoid "the author." Here is a corrected summary. Columnist commentary holds that Elon Musk's ability to build and scale world-leading companies in the United States makes him a comic-book-style figure, and that concentrated power of this kind is dangerous. The text says SpaceX has launched so many Starlink satellites that they outnumber all other active satellites and spacecraft combined, with SpaceX owning roughly 60% of active satellites according to Slingshot Aerospace. It also says Tesla dominates the U.S. electric vehicle market and that Musk's xAI set up a 100,000-GPU supercluster in 19 days, which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called "superhuman." The text attributes Musk's success to his skill at gathering, motivating and coordinating people, and it warns that organization-builders risk becoming supervillains.