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- brainworms
From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality
From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality
What’s funny to me is that many years ago Musk was viewed by a lot of the internet as this great engineering golden boy. Once cemented in the untouchable ranks of the gilded elite he opened his mouth more publically and fell flat on his face.
That’s the power of branding and a good PR team, at least until Musk got high on his own supply and fired his PR team. His rise and fall is a bit similar to Purdue Pharma’s Oxycontin marketing campaign; once the veneer of altruism was peeled off revealing an ant’s nest of lies and greed destroying people’s lives for profit, hype turned to horror.
A lot of his fans really thought he was some genius Tony Stark when in reality he just had loads of money to hire smart people to do the thinking for him. Something always rubbed me wrong with him even from the early days.