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• naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Think is, he never was a genius - actually quite far off from it

  He is just a spoiled boy having luck with gambling the money he got

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• HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looks more like too much Ketamine to me.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And lots of drugs & yes-men.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The drugs are definitely part of what happened.

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Generally the truly smartest people (the ones who actually figure out spaceflight, electric vehicles, satellite internet) aren’t the wealthiest. Sure many of them end up pretty wealthy due to stock options, high salaries, companies competing for them and the like. But often at the end of the day they just retire into their wealth and spend their days traveling or living in their huge houses or whatever.

  But the CEOs, the politicians, the investors, the self-labelled “Founders,” those approaching or in the 1%; For those it’s not about making something, doing their jobs, changing the world, etc. It’s about winning. They need to feel better than others. And for most of them that feeling never goes away. They rarely retire, and often even when they do they still pull strings from the background (see Bill Gates). Some psychopathic part of their brain makes it so their most important and purest drive is to constantly get to that next target, that next exponential stock valuation, that next acquisition, that next news broadcast they can jerk off to about how they beat someone else in a campaign or about how line go up or whatever.

  So when these people are in the middle of their career, their relatively unnoticeable by most. They’re “founding” companies by employing those smarter than them with money they have. They’re selling said companies, moving on. They’re making shady deals, laundering money, because they are smart enough to beat the system and the system is against them because they’re so smart.

  But for those that amass enough wealth like Elon, the drive never goes away. But what do you do after you’re the richest person in the world? Well, try to become the most powerful person in the world. But you can’t just run for office, the ketamine has told you that it’s faster to latch onto the recent rapid rise in fascism so you join up with Trump. Who gives a shit what kind of person he is, especially because eventually you’ll beat him. He’s a stepping stone for now, a boost pad to get you speaking with those who can get you real power, and more money because it’s never enough.

  But thinking that everything in the world works like a startup, and if you just hire more college grads, crack the whip, take stimulants to stay up to ship the product in a completely inconceivable world (government and social policy) to what you’re used to (technology and product development), it all falls apart. And then when you’ve always had success with the investors siding with you because “line go up,” you suddenly don’t have success because “line don’t go up” in the white house and Trump is getting pressure to find something to cover up giving 2 trillion dollars to the rich and there’s no quick fix.

  So you do more ketamine, lash out. You always knew trump was a pedo, a garbage human, but it didn’t matter because he was a stepping stone, so now, probably earlier than you’d like, you pull out your cards of putting him down in the hopes that you can get that power that you need because the money doesn’t matter now, feeling that you beat him is what’s most important.

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• stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah that much power and money certainly does something to your brain, the guy can’t think straight anymore

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also the dude apparently does a lot of drugs.

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