I honestly can't work him out. Genius on some sort of spectrum most likely. I don't think he's a saint or evil incarnate either though. I'm not sure even he knows what he wants to achieve with twitter
Not a genius, just someone given extreme privilege (and allowed to commit fraud at a frequency and level that would have had you and me in prison long ago).
And I think very, very few people that have ever lived have been evil incarnate. Nearly everyone was “good” to some other person or group of people at some point. Even the likes of Hitler and Stalin were “good” to people at times, even as adults. Even up until their death.
What is true of those people we generally hold up as examples of “evil humans”, though, is the width and depth of the harm they caused to
most people, and often their “reasoning” for doing so.
Whilst Musk is obviously not in the same tier as Hilter and Stalin in collective harm (yet, anyway), he has always been in a similar psychological profile. And he has fairly recently begun to enter a realm of influence and means to potentially allow him to cause widespread harm (Twitter is only a small facet of that). In some ways, he may actually have a
greater ability to cause harm to
more people because of how the world has changed since the mid-20th century and how he has chosen to exploit that change.
The reason I constantly speak out against him (and Trump)—and highlight his malfeasance and the danger he poses to people everywhere—is that I never want to see him join the echelon of Hitler, Stalin, and others.
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