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    Ludicrous mode: the response to our Elon Musk story

    Apr 29, 2019 2 minutes

    n the essays collected for our December 2018 cover story, ‘In Defence of Elon Musk’, ten writers and entrepreneurs weighed the contributions of this controversial man. Unsurprisingly, the piece itself was also controversial. One publication criticised us for ‘buy[ing] into … the perceived importance of genius,. People argued in Reddit threads, and tweeted at us in both frustration and agreement. But the responses we most cared about were from you.

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