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Yes.
I don't get why there is so much Elon Musk fanboying in tech/libertarian circles. All the businesses the guy is involved in are heavily subsidized by the US government, and yet he gets heralded as a champion of libertarianism.
We can certainly admire Musk's talent for finding innovative ways of exploiting the system for personal gain and creating a cult of personality around himself, but a John Galt incarnate he is not.
I mostly see the fanboy stuff coming from generic technophiles and millennial liberals/environmentalists.
It wouldn't surprise me too much if some libertarians are big fans, there is a lot of overlap between technophiles and libertarians for whatever reason. And I suppose moderate libertarians wouldn't oppose subsidizing corporate R&D if there are plausible positive externalities. Not all libertarians are purists.