Dude's gonna run Twitter into the ground because he's a dumbass.
All billionaires are dumbasses. When you're born into wealth, you can fix any problem you come across by throwing money at it, so your problem-solving skills never get developed, so when you're an adult you're a full-blown dumbass who makes lots of bad decisions.
"Well heck dude, how can he still be a billionaire if he fucks up everything he touches by being a dumbass?"
Listen. If you or I do a big, serious, thousands-of-dollars-scale fuckup, we'll learn from it the hard way because it can affect our lives for YEARS. With someone like Musk, that's just a Thursday morning. He keeps getting wealthier because first he hires people to think for him, and second he takes dumbass risks and sometimes gets lucky.
I fix machines that were once for public enjoyment and are now the hoarded expensive toys of the rich, I know these things.
Sometimes I go on a job for someone who genuinely did make some money from no money and cunning, and they're alright; they're the sort of guys who do the stuff they wouldn't ask their employees to do, and hats off to them. Or someone who bought a machine back when they were cheap.
But born-wealthy people? Dumbasses, all of them.
Being a dumbass doesn't necessarily make you a bad person, mind. Some of my best professional relationships are with self-described dumbasses. I think that's the difference. A rich dumbass who KNOWS they're a dumbass tends to be very aware of the role that luck played in their wealth, and they treat their money accordingly - and often knowledge of one's own dumbassery actually causes them to make better decisions!
MUSK THINKS HE'S CLEVER.
Elon Musk is the drunk bloke sticking twenty pound notes into the fruit machine and strutting about like he's clever when it finally pays out and he's lucked into £3 in profit.
(note for context: modern British gambling machines (called fruit machines) are not random and can be brute-forced into a jackpot after taking in a certain amount of money without accepting a win)
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