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Yes. He's a fucking mess, they all are. The only happy ultra-wealthy are the ones who no one ever hears about, they live like normal people (except they have an endless bank account to fall back on). It takes mental illness to have enough money to live in luxury forever and keep chasing more just to compete with your peers

But as for Musk personally? He's a true believer. He actually believes in his grandfather's technocracy ideas... And the eugenics. Which is extra funny, because Musk's dad treats Elon like a genetic dead end. He calls him out publicly on Twitter no less

Musk is actually that dumb. Fucker actually thought Trump brought him in to cut the budget, and that firing his own regulators was just a little job perk no one would notice. He honestly thinks he's the anti-hero making the tough decisions for the future of humanity

People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they're good because he did them.

Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels.

I do think he's confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.

For people like that there's no compassion, regret or remorse, it's either water under the bridge or someone else's fault.

Elon's a big believer in Ethical Altruism - the idea that any action you take is ethical as long as it improves life for someone. In his case 'someone' is future generations, ie. people who can't tell him his actions on their behalf are wrong, because they don't exist yet. It works as long as you don't think about it too hard, which he doesn't.

People who are capable of feeling guilt for hurting others would never do the terrible things required to achieve such a position anyway. It's the way they make sure only people who are part of the in-group get that high on the ladder. At best, Elon sees us as insignificant specs that don't even register in his brain. At worst, he hates us and actively enjoys making us suffer.

Capitalism favours psychopaths.

These people are successful under capitalism not in spite of being terrible people, but because they are terrible people.

I'm usually not the first person to quote Jesus, but when he said that camels had better chances getting through the heads of needles than rich people had of getting into heaven this is sorta what he was getting at. If you're not a gigantic piece of shit you're just not going to get that rich.

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You know he does ketamine, right? The drug that makes you feel like you're not yourself but someone else instead?

A wise man once said "they not like us".

They've got a head full of bad wiring but because they control the money they get away with that psycho shit. As to whether it bothers them it doesn't, they're not capable of it.

Gaining high status or power changes your brain, suppressing empathy and making you neurologically less able to consider the pain you inflict on others.

The powerful become evil, it's just how human brains work.

(Here. Are. Some. Sources)

That's probably what the drugs are for

The dude is like, constantly high

He's a nazi, so that means he's incapable of empathy.

Any pangs of humanity that might be left are killed with Horse Tranquilizer, Ecstasy, Weed, or whatever the advanced billionaire version drug is that we won't have access to for another 20 years. Probably because it costs $100,000 a dose or something stupid. He's a junkie. They have no sympathy, remorse, or the ability to look back on their mistakes. Their only goal is more hard drugs, keep them coming, and fuck anyone with full force that tries to stop the drugs.

It's not a secret on either point. He's an open public nazi. He's an open public junkie.

Well, it was just reported widely that he uses a lot of drugs and that it was way more than previously thought, so I'd say that.

He reportedly uses ketamine, ecstasy and possibly mushrooms. Ketamine usage alone can help him ignore all of that.

I had a cousin who probably could have been diagnosed as a psychopath. He had no sense of right or wrong, of good or bad. The only think that registered with him was who he could manipulate, and whether he could get away with it.

It was interesting to see. At a family funeral, he started goading his brother, talking about how much time he had to golf (in jail, no less) while the brother had to work all the time. He thrived on being an irritant to get his own way.

News reports that Musk is a heavy drug user suggest that he self-medicates to cope.

Elon knows all the money in the world can't make him a real boy and that warms my cold dead heart.

Bonus: Elon's dad is exactly the kind of POS you'd expect, but his one redeeming quality is that he heaps praise on Elon's brother while regarding the world's richest man as a disappointment.

They do not feel emotions like you and I do. All they know is hate, fear, and all consuming greed.

That is the thing about narcissism...

Fun fact: sociopaths don’t feel that guilt. Explains a LOT of CEOs and politicians.

1. He's a narcissist. People don't get to his level of wealth by having compassion for the feelings of others. No billionaire ever gat there through their own hard work, they did it by taking advantage of the hard work of other people. He literally does not give a fuck. But narcissists aren't typically born in a vacuum.

2. Do some research on his upbringing. His father was a narcissist and did all he could to make his son unfettered by compassion for others through constant power games and humiliation. He was raised in South Africa where there was a huge macho culture and it was expected that the strong took advantage of the weak. Elon himself was picked on mercilessly by his classmates, though so he literally had to cope by suppressing his own emotions and not caring about the feelings of most others. I say "most" because the exception would be the fact that he was constantly trying to earn the approval of his father because of his twisted upbringing. Even after his parents divorced when he was 9, he eventually went back to live with his dad despite the constant criticism. In short, Elon learned during his formative years that compassion was a weakness and you can't just flip a switch to unlearn that.

3. He does copious amounts of drugs and sleeps with a constant stream of women to hide from any possible problematic feelings that would get in the way of his ambitions

Buyers remorse

People can get used to anything.

They have no guilt. They likely see rest of us as weak and stupid, worthy only of being exploited.

The man thinks (or at least says) that empathy is a bad thing. There's no guilt without a conscience, and no conscience without empathy. Obscenely unfathomable wealth takes care of the rest.

Displacement is a hell of a coping mechanism.

Until it isn't.

They evaluate reality with other priorities. To them it seems like they are doing good.

Almost all cruelties are committed for the greater good. People just disagree on what is good.

I think Putin has kompromat on him and he in some sense doesn't have a choice. I'm not trying to absolve him of agency but i think he did a horrible thing that he can easily and reliably be totally controlled with that the russians possibly put together