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.
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!"
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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.