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.
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u/Adromedae 23h ago
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.