Well written generic response. Yes, luck is always a factor, that goes for every single person on earth. But let's get specific: How many companies / competitors did Musk buy? Did he work his butt off and take risks very few others would have, including putting his entire net worth into companies like SpaceX and Tesla, which both came very close to bankruptcy? Did he work at least as long hours as his employees? By all reports, he doesn't have much of a personal life. You obviously haven't done much research, because Tesla didn't close the Fremont factory. Instead, they have expanded it to the point where it's producing way more than it ever did under GM or Toyota. As for moving production to China, yes, he built a factory in Shanghai. But you will note that it does not export back to the USA, and is only exporting some production to Europe until the German factory is in full production. It's friendlier for the environment and probably better for business (if done efficiently) to produce locally where the goods are going to be sold. Similarly, the new Texas factory will be selling to the eastern US. By all reports, all of those factories are some of the best designed and run in the world. While there are obviously some disgruntled ex-employees, Tesla and SpaceX also seem to retain the loyalty and enthusiasm of a lot of their employees, unlike, for example, Amazon. As for net worth, this has effectively been 'voted' to them by their investors, and allowed/encouraged by the elected officials of the land. If you have an issue with that, there is an obvious remedy. Change the government.

Have had the first Pfizer jab (South Africa). The accompanying documentation that was given to me was very clear on potential reactions / risks, and in my mind are perfectly acceptable. This was based on reported results on literally many millions of delivered shots world wide. I had no reaction other than a very slight inflammation and no pain of the injection site Neither did my 89-yo mother and her two sisters (both in their 80s). Almost their entire retirement facility has been vaccinated (about 200 people), with no severe reactions reported. Achieving 'herd immunity' will drastically cut down on the potential of the virus to mutate and produce a more hazardous / infectious variant than what we have seen. High numbers of infected people with high viral loads are a much more productive breeding ground for new variants and new waves of the virus. I don't see why I or anyone else should be exposed to further risk just because of a minority of ... Well this is a public forum or else I would put down what I really think. I can't believe how politicized this whole issue has become and how some seemingly intelligent and well-informed people have been caught up in an anti-science / anti-vax fakery. I can remember back when I started school, vaccination was mandated, for the health of the general population and the individual. No questions asked or expected.

Windows 10, as our servers have been Windows based. But in the process of swapping all our software (database, languages, GIS infrastructure, tools) over to open source. Some of the tools and packages we use will only run comfortably on linux, so I will be dual-booting / migrating to Ubuntu over time. About the only MS product I am doing anything on anymore is Visual Studio Code (Python dev). MS Office has been switched out for Libre Office, Opera does for email, SQL Server / SSIS / SSRS has been replaced by open source based off PostgreSQL / Python / RabbitMQ.