>>454794
>I feel like we just don't have enough ways to measure success.
We do, intrinsically. Musk has "everything" but has zero relationship with his children and even used one as a meatshield once he felt threatened because he accurately summarized that while people might hate him no man who hates him would try to "solve" him if there's a chance a 4yo would get hurt, he doesn't even fuck the women with whom he had kids, it's all artificial insemination, he cannot exist without being worshiped like a god to the extent he paid jeets to grind Diablo for him so he could shill himself as a gamer, and his constant jabbering about Mars is utterly meaningless.
He is an isolated, soulless individual who tried to solve his utter absence of emotional content and basic emotional connections and PASSION FOR LIFE with techbro bullshit and technology, and is now utterly confused by the fact it didn't work. Because it cannot work. His whole life is a failure.
Also as a general note - tech advancement does not and cannot solve basic human needs. It tends to make them worse and monetize false solutions. Did the moon landing help us in any way? Did it make our lives better? The answer is no. Colonizing Mars like in hecking Star Trek wouldn't either. It's just that there's still a big majority of people and grifters out there who think any of that crap matters at all or is a solution. It isn't. It's a part of the problem.