• theneverfox@pawb.social
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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

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.world
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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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      Some people may alter names and words to avoid retaIiation if/when the oIigarchs figure out how to scrap Iemmy for keywords in search for those who may oppose them. This is already happening on other pIatforms.

      I don’t have a solution to this dilemma.

      Some will continue to protect themselves in favor of assisting others to keep their heads in the sand.

    • pocker_machine@lemmy.worldOP
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      Oh sorry I didn’t think of that. I was just using his name in a funny way. Besides my intention were about people like him, but the discussion went about him anyways.

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        I totally get that, I twist things like that all the time for comedy :) Just wanted to point out something I didn’t think about the first time someone told me either. Because I’ve had days where I literally can’t even and shut it all off lol

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    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)

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

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    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.

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

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    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

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    The man thinks (or at least says) 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.