This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.

@georgetakei

She's got him. Worth noting: I got to the end thinking I was reading a description of Trump. Both of them may be rich and powerful. Neither seems the least bit happy.

@Professor_Stevens His reply to her was also highly Trumpian in tone. (And consequently, extremely unconvincing.)

@georgetakei

@wil @georgetakei

What was his reply?

@Professor_Stevens I'm not finding the specific one I was thinking of -- it may have actually been a response to someone else, but there's one here. https://fandomwire.com/joyce-carol-oates-eviscerates-elon-musk-again-like-piano-wire-through-tofu-truly-it-was-out-of-curiosity/
Joyce Carol Oates Eviscerates Elon Musk Again Like Piano Wire Through Tofu: "Truly it was out of curiosity"

Author Joyce Carol Oates takes a curious question to Elon Musk on X, and people claim she has dissected the billionaire's mannerisms.

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@wil

He really can't take it, can he? And that stuff about "making far more than one consumes" is almost literally lifted from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," the bible of the wealthy sociopath.

I may not be rich, but I think I'm in a better mood tonight than he is.