Elon Musk isn't the virus. He's just pretty good at it.

The bad idea is older and simpler. We're bad at cooperation. We default to extraction because it pays out fast — within a single lifetime, within a single attention span.

He didn't invent that. He just scored highest on the test.

We built a competition optimized for 60 year payouts and acted surprised when it selected against our children.

He's not the aberration. He's the gold medalist of a game we never should have been playing.