Why Elon Musk is a broken human being, or why billionaires are so often overconfident jerks who suck

[Dennis Donovan]

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Brian Klaas
If you’re interested in why Elon Musk is a broken human being, or why billionaires are so often overconfident jerks who suck, well, I’ve helpfully written three essays to explain it. Here they are:

The Myth of the Secret Genius

If he’s super rich, he must be a super genius.

That conclusion is a cognitive mistake many continue to make when they encounter a seemingly incongruous state of affairs, such as Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, behaving like an irrational idiot. And yet, behave like an idiot he does, day after day, a public jester who can buy the world’s most expensive jewels or light $44 billion on fire, but hasn’t yet found a shop to sell him self-awareness or common sense.

Elon Musk is part of a small class of extremely rich people who are rich partly because they’re effective at making others think they’re Secret Geniuses.

Other alleged Secret Geniuses are constantly in the news these days: Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos (heading to prison); Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX (probably heading to prison); Adam Neumann of WeWork (who produced a spectacular financial collapse); and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (who has, so far, poured $30 billion into a metaverse that looks like a PlayStation 2 game from 2001).

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. I learned from observing my father:

Money does NOT buy happiness.

You may be able to pay your bills without the stress.
You may have enhanced social status.
You may be delusional that you're more likeable and smarter than when you weren't rich.

But you're the same asshole you were before the money showed up.

[Scrivener7]

2. Inheriting emerald mines is very helpful in becoming super rich.

Money makes money. He started with money.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Having normous wealth makes it a lot easier to be a con artist.

Especially when you were born into it, like Eloon and Trump. A huge chunk of the population won't look into how you got that rich, and they exploit that.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Ruthlessness

Watching both Zuckerberg's and Elon's pathy to being super rich, they were and are both the most ruthless business people imagineable. Zuckerberg screwed over everyone he did business with early and he was monetizing Facebook in ways people had no idea were possible. Musk latches onto other people's ideas and steals them from them, then he pushes them out entrely and has a talent for knowing when he has the leverage to take it all. They've both spent lifetimes stepping on other people and having zero ethics when it comes to business. It's not something to be admired.

And the idea that Musk is any kind of engineer is laughable, he's not. Zuckerberg could code some, but it's neer been like he was a whiz kid programmer. He saw an opportunity before other people did and he used others to get control of Facebook.

Musk is the king of riding in and stealing ideas. He had nothing to do with devloping any technology he has stolen. Not Paylpal, not EVs, not anything else Tesla did, and he has zero to do with what goes on at SpaceX.

[LeftInTX]

8. Elon is a mental case and has been taking Ketamine

And why does he conceive kids IVF instead of the "real way"? He lives in a crappy house near Boca Chica Beach.

EXCLUSIVE: Musk's modest abode: Elon's $50,000 Texas ranch is laid bare for first time - complete with rocket-shaped kids' playhouse and Tesla solar panels - just a block from SpaceX Starbase and two miles from Mexican border
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10775779/Elon-Musks-50k-Texas-home-near-SpaceX-Starbase-revealed.html





Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he uses prescription ketamine. Here's what you need to know about the drug
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2024/03/21/exp-elon-musk-ketamine-therapy-depression-gerard-sanacora-intv-032103aseg2-cnni-health.cnn

[The Magistrate]

5. What A Wonderful Piece, Sir! thank You For Sharing It

[groundloop]

6. So Elmo isn't going to be happy after his $45 BILLION payday?!?!?!

What a greedy fuck, that much money could provide a pretty decent living for half a million people.

[applegrove]

7. Dyslexics discouver stuff with their wide scope and wacky thinking.

They make the unknown known. Everybody else exploits (in good or bad ways, sometimes both) the known world. The person who has the aha! moment is not the person who should be running the show after the discovery. IMHO

Here is a study that goes into it:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unleashed-power-dyslexia-oscar-serret

THE UNLEASHED POWER OF DYSLEXIA.

.Oscar Serret

Published May 12, 2023

"SNIP..........

Based on facts and figures, it seems that dyslexia is widely scattered on the planed, no matter if you are men or women, black or white, born in the north or in the south…. more less the 20% of the population is dyslexic and such uniformity suggests that there is more behind it, that for sure is not related with food, contamination, temperature… scientist start having evidence that it is more related with the evolution and the survival of the humans as a specie, and it is something that has been shaped through thousands of years of evolution. How this could be explained?

To survive and to evolve anyone needs two abilities: first exploitation and second, exploration. Exploitation is the capacity of obtaining the goods that environment supplies, just to survive on the daily bases. But what happens when “the daily bases” changes or even disappears? Then you need to be prepared to front face unknown situations. To be prepared means that before the fatality arrive, someone has had to explore and to look for new and different options, here is when the ability of exploration is required. It is clear, that we need to craft two different abilities and at this point the magics of the evolution starts driving the fate. On one side, in the primitive and hostile environment humans just were mainly another source of food battling against other species to get their piece of meat and on the other side the wild environment was continuously changing. Pressure to survive biased human’s brain to increase the level of specialization, at the end of the day, the more focused the better you are, so we were split in two communities: the exploiters and the explorers, but to put all in value then collaboration was needed, otherwise it would have not worked.

Non dyslexic people (the exploiters) usually tend to be more structured so that is why they have better writing and speaking abilities, they make better choices… this make them managers, good speakers… on the other side, dyslexics (the explorers) are curios, easy lateral thinkers, have a natural tendency for the discovery and for breaking the rules, otherwise the evolution is impossible… so that is why many of the choose more creative topics like arts, engineering… at the end of the story each human has only one brain so the only way of potentiating the capacity is deep specialization, so or you are explorer or a exploiter, but neither both at once.

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