It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to get the people who've been conditioned to see Musk as a hero in line.
As though the "he's like the real life Iron Man" propaganda ever ended, instead they just started skewing it towards the people less likely to conform to this technocratic future
In reality, though, why would Musk help his competition in this situation? One of two outcomes :
Musk helps and has competition
Musk doesn't help and Bezos has to build his own space program and Musk has a monopoly until then.
I'm not even a shrewd businessman and I see what the correct answer is business wise.
This "helpful billionaire" shit doesn't even make sense with even the smallest amount of scrutiny.
It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to get the people who've been conditioned to see Musk as a hero in line.
As though the "he's like the real life Iron Man" propaganda ever ended, instead they just started skewing it towards the people less likely to conform to this technocratic future