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I know it's delusional, but I'm really hoping for an Elon redemption arc someday.
It's crazy that this guy who builds electric cars, flamethrowers, spaceships, and loves Star Trek is so unlikeable.
it makes more sense when you realize those things were a charm offensive to hide the real him.
see also: Mom's Friendly Robot Company
I'm not sure building flamethrowers is necessarily a positive personality trade. They don't exactly have a great history.
Was that from futurama?
sigh
Musk is mom, ok?
You call the a pressed ham?!?!
He has unshakable faith in his own reasoning, complete certainty about the correctness of his beliefs, and is utterly convinced that his wealth, power and success is not only deservedly earned, but belongs to him by natural right. He has no patience for contradiction, no respect for counter-argument, no tolerance for frustration, and no use for humanity beyond its adoration. It's going to take something incredible to to shake him out of that. But I agree that it would be wonderful if something does.
I doubt it. I'm having a hard time finding it, but there was a study that suggested that wealthy people kind of stopped developing mentally at whatever time they became wealthy. I think this study was focused more on children and adolescents, but I can see it applying to adults somewhat. If you think about it, wealthy people become disconnected from the rest of society and rarely suffer the consequences of their actions. I mean, maybe if he lost his fortune and was left destitute...
This is a thing in psychology. Overcoming challenges is what forces us to grow, so when you break that "game" by having so much money that you never have to be challenged again, it makes sense that you would stop developing.
You see the same sort of thing with alcohol/drug addiction - when a person finds a chemical "easy-button" for dopamine, they tend to mentally get stuck around the age that they started using.
It will require a serious brain injury.
Or a permanent treatment for narcissism.