In what limited time I’ve spent interacting with extremely rich people I’ve found them to be pretty much the same cross-section of humanity as in any other grouping. There are some happy people and some sad. Some are insane, some are great, some are stupid, some are smart, etc etc. I thought there would be some notable difference but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’m still a little sad about how Elon Musk turned out. Somewhere inside him is a happy nerd that just wants to build rockets and electric cars. Plenty of billionaires are happy to just sit back poisoning the water and staying out of the spotlight, and he’s not that, for which I give him props. It just seems like right around covid time he took this hard sudden turn into crazy-sociopathic-POS land, his kids won’t speak to him, he’s aggressively mocking towards all these Twitter engineers who just want to do their jobs, he just overall turned out as a bad person, and I wish it hadn’t happened that way.
I think there was an opportunity for Elon to turn out differently, but his upbringing almost guaranteed he’d turn out a bastard. He might be into rockets and electric cars, but that doesn’t mean he actually makes things work, he’s an executive who started life somewhere between third and home. He got his start in Canada when he stepped of a plan with uncut emeralds from his family’s emerald mine. He could afford to take risks and such because his family’s wealth was extraordinary (and built on the exploitation of others, which totally wouldn’t be a recurring theme in companies he runs).
What an odd state of affairs that one of the richest people to ever inhabit the planet is the boy who cried pedophile. Worst timeline, ever.
In what limited time I’ve spent interacting with extremely rich people I’ve found them to be pretty much the same cross-section of humanity as in any other grouping. There are some happy people and some sad. Some are insane, some are great, some are stupid, some are smart, etc etc. I thought there would be some notable difference but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’m still a little sad about how Elon Musk turned out. Somewhere inside him is a happy nerd that just wants to build rockets and electric cars. Plenty of billionaires are happy to just sit back poisoning the water and staying out of the spotlight, and he’s not that, for which I give him props. It just seems like right around covid time he took this hard sudden turn into crazy-sociopathic-POS land, his kids won’t speak to him, he’s aggressively mocking towards all these Twitter engineers who just want to do their jobs, he just overall turned out as a bad person, and I wish it hadn’t happened that way.
I think there was an opportunity for Elon to turn out differently, but his upbringing almost guaranteed he’d turn out a bastard. He might be into rockets and electric cars, but that doesn’t mean he actually makes things work, he’s an executive who started life somewhere between third and home. He got his start in Canada when he stepped of a plan with uncut emeralds from his family’s emerald mine. He could afford to take risks and such because his family’s wealth was extraordinary (and built on the exploitation of others, which totally wouldn’t be a recurring theme in companies he runs).