Argument by analogy is always at risk of somebody over analysing the analogy. Fixing rotten soil is a specialist role in civil engineering associated with mine site remeditation. You can certainly try fixing rotten soil and Musk is going to have to go where Matt Demon led us, analogistically speaking.

Reversing the analogy, fix a bad company by lots and lots of manure and hard work. Or not: there's always an allotment somewhere needing some TLC.