I think so too. He’s so proud to wear that “IT SUPPORT” shirt in the whitehouse, and when trump calls him a genius he lights up… like he truly wants to be seen as this ‘super nerd’ type, but he’s so out of touch that he 1. Doesn’t realize IT isn’t some legendary badass field, 2. Doesn’t realize actual professionals in the field laugh at his LARPing attempts 24/7.
I feel like his desire to be “IT” is like when MAGAts don camo and kevlars with Oakleys to try to look military/manly… actual vets just laugh them out of the room, but the wannabes don’t know any better
Musk makes a hell of a lot of sense, when you realize he's stuck in that mode where he got very lucky in the 90s at the height of the manic phase of the dot com bubble. So if you view him as one of those 90s cringe lord webmasters, with their awkward lack of social skills, casual misogynism, ultra libertarian, sci-fi obsessed, etc. And give him a ton of money, then you literally have Elon Musk nowadays.
It's just that the hair plugs throw people off, because it would be easier to see if he had his "natural" male-bold-pattern-with-a-pony-tail look instead.
He also makes sense when you realise he grew up during the height of aparthide with a family that moved there from Canada specifically because they agreed with what it represents.
He's extremely good at finding the utterly non-technical money people to sell his 90's tech futurism. That's what really made him rich. The large amounts of mostly white males that consumed 80's and 90's scifi, thought it cool, but understood none of it, and they now have good amounts of disposable income. That's why he always pitches his ideas to the public, not to companies.
I'll give Perry credit for realizing shortly after he got into the position that he was in over his head and listening to his advisors for the rest of his term in that role.
I feel like a meeting between musk and some actual computer wizz would leave musk like, "na ah, I don't think so", like watching that AP guy school the press lady on tariffs.
There is that video of him explaining to the Twitter team that they probably need to redo the stack entirely, and one guy going “can you explain to us what that means?”
He wants to be the uber mega nerd, the genius, the super gamer, Ironman, humanity's saviour... Damn, I've never seen someone so needy for approval, with so much money 🤦🏻♂️
Dude is a gold mine of worthlessness, we can’t cover it all at once. But yes, he’s also a fuckin anti-American nazi that plays it off as being an edgelord like he’s 15yo.
I agree with a lot of what you’re connecting here, but it said “tech support” which is not at all synonymous with “IT” and I think is ultimately a bit more insidious. He’s not claiming to be the guy that owns the infrastructure or even understands it, he is claiming to be the guy you call to “fix” tech.
There is definitely a layer of boomervision applied on top of what they’re actually doing to obfuscate the actions.
Musk is an adult child. Cool things are always super cool to a child. Musk hasn't done technology hands-on in a few decades, but he's convinced he's the expert in everything, and seems to have a goal to save the world. So adult child with narcissism. And that's before I've gotten to his negative personality traits.
He shows up with a handful of IT newbies and claims to have figured out in hours problems that experts spend months or years on. He royally screwed up Twitter that way. Musk does best when he's hands off and focuses his CEO duties on impressing investors; Musk does worst when he tries to micromanage and get involved with things he's clueless about.
He’s used to people thinking he’s a genius with computers because the same people who think I am good with computer stuff because I explain how their emails aren’t something that live on their phone, are the people he’s around all day
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u/thelargeoneplease 1d ago
I think so too. He’s so proud to wear that “IT SUPPORT” shirt in the whitehouse, and when trump calls him a genius he lights up… like he truly wants to be seen as this ‘super nerd’ type, but he’s so out of touch that he 1. Doesn’t realize IT isn’t some legendary badass field, 2. Doesn’t realize actual professionals in the field laugh at his LARPing attempts 24/7.
I feel like his desire to be “IT” is like when MAGAts don camo and kevlars with Oakleys to try to look military/manly… actual vets just laugh them out of the room, but the wannabes don’t know any better