from Hacker News

Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book

by kirillzubovsky on 9/14/23, 7:06 PM with 2 comments

  • by coldtea on 9/14/23, 7:21 PM

    He is just regular capitalism with a love for the spotlight, and a seasoning of quite common neurodivergence. Neither hyper-calculating genius mastermind, nor crazy Bond villain.

    What people describe as "crazy" is basically being blatantly against their partisan affiliation, and being a shitty mega-rich boss in public.

    For shitty mega-rich bosses with the correct (with respect to media and commentators) party-affiliation, or that keep their shit in private, much fewer concerns are raised, even if their villainy is much more impactful to whole countries and worse than "fired the whole team out of a whim" or "writes stupid tweets like a 15 year old".

  • by 3cats-in-a-coat on 9/18/23, 12:16 PM

    Odd false dichotomy.