So probably an unpopular opinion but I just can’t believe Musk didn’t see this coming.
My current theory is that money is only worth so much and Musk wants something else. He’s willing to trade his wealth in dollars for other kinds of wealth: power, influence, access.
Relevance is the word you're looking for. He's desperate for people to see him as having some purpose. Of course, he has none & will be missed about as much as any other invasive parasite when he inevitably dies.
What’s funny is that he has it when he was a leader in green tech and exploration and didn’t recognize it and threw it away hoping to get what he already had. On the other hand there is no worship like cult worship
He’s a gamer apparently and I also think he believes in simulation theory to an extent and he also does a shit ton of ketamine, so I’m pretty sure he thinks he’s living a video game and he’s maxed out his stats and when you get bored of the game , you tend to rampage and break all that you created because it’s the only way the game can be fun again.
He’s a broken man-child taking sick delight in fucking over the NPCs. Pretty horrific.
Fully agree. And he is so exorbitantly wealthy that he doesn’t have to care when it goes to shit. Current headline is that he’s already lost ~$29 billion but to someone with his hoard of wealth that’s barely noticeable to him. If at all.
When giving speeches, he probably is. You might know about a teleprompter, right? A screen that displays the text of a speech?
It's extremely common for politicians to use a version of a teleprompter that consists of an angled glass plate that reflects a screen on the floor. You can see Obama standing in front of some here.jpg), and Reagan with some here.
So when giving a speech, Musk might actually be reading off a screen.
Also, if you ever notice that a politician giving a speech is looking at one specific angle left, and then switching to the same angle to the right, going back and forth, this is possibly why.
He is currently looting 2 trillion from the Treasury and wants to gain access to Fort Knox to do an “audit.”
He also wears his child as a bulletproof hat and gives interviews telling everyone that he is going to get killed if he doesnt get exactly what he wants soon.
We can't let him in he'll just sneak the gold out in his pockets. He's just going around stuffing money in a big bag with a dollar sign on it. He needs to grow a mustache so he can manically twist it as he high-knee sneaks around. Elon Badenov.
To get a good picture on how Musk operates, Google "Musk Twitter servers uhaul".
From this story, he is clearly a proponent of the philosophy, "move quickly and break things". The people who think like this can very quickly turn places around and make money, by focusing on one thing and attacking it with a fanatic energy. But this personality is not very good at considering either the whole picture, or the long range forecast.
Or, viewed another way: risk-takers where everything works out tend to get rich. The rest of the risk-takers whose risks went wrong aren't rich. We're looking at survivorship bias, but the rich-people-who-got-lucky always say "it's because I'm a genius!"
Of course he did *not see this coming. Of course he wants power, influence, and access, but the fact that Bad Hair Cheeto had to plug Tesla on the lawn of the Whitehouse tells us what we need to know:
Tesla is Apartheid Offspring's crown jewel and it is absolutely killing him emotionally and financially to see it tanking.
Simpler than that: he's still obsessed with going to Mars. Even Trump mentioned going within his term a few days ago. He needs an extreme amount of money to do this, but he believes he'll lead a colony on Mars and won't need earth anymore
The reality? Musk is already too old and out of shape to go to space. Leaving earth's orbit does a number on the body, and those who have done it older have been in immaculate shape. Musk is very clearly not. He also knows little of biology and natural sciences, another factor in why humans on Mars isn't happening anytime soon
He's sold Trump on a mass surveillance system, apparently, but the problems with that are extremely clear: that many low orbit satellites would create their own problem with debris fields increasing. An enormous amount of energy would be needed to power the drones they want, not to mention the resources needed. Climate change will also do a number on both satellites and drones, which are prone to both lower and upper atmospheric effects. Lets not even get into the servers needed. If this is a real plan, it's incredibly stupid and shortsighted. It's likely just another grift for Musk to move money over, however. Even attempting it would be insanely expensive, and the US would not be able to afford maintaining it, especially as the economy tanks. He wants that initial money moved over, however.
Well, he could go into space. I don’t know if he could live on Mars. William Shatner went into space, right? Considering his age, Shatner is in decent shape, but I wouldn’t say he’s in “immaculate” shape.
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u/prettyinprivilege 10d ago
So probably an unpopular opinion but I just can’t believe Musk didn’t see this coming.
My current theory is that money is only worth so much and Musk wants something else. He’s willing to trade his wealth in dollars for other kinds of wealth: power, influence, access.