@TheBierFrau @sspopovich @pkrugman

Awesome, thank you! I never read the NYT because it’s always paywalled and on the whole, it’s very biased if not outright crappy at times. (Remember the recent article where the author wasn’t sure of Musk’s political leaning? This was after he told everyone to vote Republican.)

In this case, Prof Krugman gets it half right:

“ the lesson I took from my moment of pettiness was that privilege corrupts, that it very easily breeds a sense of entitlement.”

He misses that privilege and power ATTRACT corrupt people - sociopaths. Decent people are not necessarily corrupted by money and power. Musk was never a decent person, and never will be.