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I think it's more the money. money causes mental illness.
but you know, there's a cure, and he employs so very many engineers who could build him one.
Power disparity derived from wealth disparity inevitably leads to unchecked corruption.
Late Stage Capitalism is a malignant cancer on both society and the planet
Hear hear
I think you're right in some cases. Something about having so much twisted his mind. I honestly think they he never used to be this bad (not saying he was good). But he wasn't this bad, right?
You are correct.
Previous to ~2013 before the boring company bullshit, he was just a nerdy guy with a vision and poor social skills. From memory, he was hard to work for because he expected so much of people and drove them hard. Yes his early money source is sketchy.
I think the popularity after the boring company started to mess him up, basically he became the memes he was sharing, and it broke his brain, then the drugs and money separated him from reality. Now he is so divorced from the experience of the regular person, that no matter what happens....barring the complete loss of his fortune, he will never be the same nerdy guy.
I think he will just get worse.
The Boring Company was an attempt to destroy the long distance high speed rail californians had voted for. He did this because he hated trains and didn't want us to have nice things.
that's pretty fucking evil. imagine how much CO2 would have been saved if that had actually been built.
Back then I wouldn't put it at evil, I would have gone with malignant greed. The shit he is doing now, is evil.
I like to be careful with terms, so they don't become watered down, being greedy isn't evil, it can lead there if taken too far.
I think he lost money on that, and just dropped it after the train program tanked. don't quote me on it though.
suggests evil.
in the 90s he was such a dick, even peter thiel, the guy who names his dystopian companies after evil artifacts from LOTR, couldn't deal with him. also he was running in the same circles as peter fucking thiel.
both suggest evil.
when he got rid of his PR team, it was gameover
it's progressive, but he was also less visible.