TL,DR.
Obama expressed that socialist point of view much better "you didn't build it"
C'mon! It's the MIT Technology Review! Totally unbiased, objective, and scientifically sound.
After seeing Elon Musk's management style in action, I would be very hesitant to ever work for him. At the same time, without Elon Musk, none of these ventures would exist. And he's the only one that's made an electric car that doesn't suck.
I hate subsidies as much as anyone, but the U.S. spends IIRC, $6B each year, just patrolling the Persian Gulf. That's a hell of a subsidy just to assure supply of a minority of our fuel requirements.
And the Space Shuttle was really cool, but SpaceX's launch cost per kg is nearly 1/10th the cost of the cheapest shuttle mission. In fact, the entire SpaceX development program is less than the cost of the top end of one shuttle mission ($1.5B).
Not bad performance for our tax dollars...