Musk indeed appears to see himself as an agent of humanity's salvation, including in its treatment of Twitter employees. And to be honest, while I and likely many people would see it as self-serving delusion of grandeur, it's hard to believe he's not at least genuine in his belief: you can't really suspect him of wanting to take over Twitter (and all of its headaches) for money.
Sadly his whole save humanity thing is a schtick..
If you investigate his back story, who he works with, it becomes clear it's not about Mars.
His real enterprise is a massive DoD program, built off the Strategic Defense Initiative (the "real" Star Wars). Republicans have been trying to resurrect it for decades and Elon was part of it since at least 2001. The idea is to intercept ballistic missiles from space and end the threat of nuclear armegeddon. In that sense he is trying to "save humanity", but it's misguided because the project is already aggrevating China and Russia and is fundamentally destablizing to the nuclear stalemate/M.A.D.
This project, operating under the Space Development Agency and working with the Missile Defense Agency, requires Republicans to fund--Biden and most Democrats been trying to stop it. Twitter helps Musk with the elections and boosting Republican power, while currying favor from them when it comes to these contracts.
If you're interested to know more, Mike Griffin is the ringleader.. he goes way back with Elon. Read his career history:
Starlink is building up the basic tech for these constellations--currently just sensing ballistic missiles and hypersonics--but with Starship, putting kinetic weapons in orbit become feasible. Some good references here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
From your past comments (i was curiois and checked) i see that you cant pass the oportunity to mention Griffin and Starlink and this somehow indicates that sole purpose and motivation for musk is DoD contracts, and hes in the game only for military purpose.
Yes military will use thing they can to theyr advantage, but acording to your logic all industries that manufacture anything of use for military is doing everything they do ONLY becaus of DoD.
Should clarify, this isn't the _only_ motivation for Musk, but building what is basically SkyNet is one of his main considerations and ties in with his AI threat commentary.
