Ok friends I need you to listen closely:
Elon Musk doubling down and compounding his bad decisions is NORMAL. This is how rich assholes behave.
This is how they ALL behave.
We're going into a climate crisis. One that requires immediate action. We have unprecedentedly unchecked corporate power structures and an elite that has zero understanding.
And they will make WORSE decisions the more they are pressed.
The rich will destroy the world rather than admit they don't know what they're doing.
But Musk is trashing his own PR machine, you say? Why would he do that?
Because it's his to destroy. Does that hurt him, in the end? Yes. But the ego threat it represents when independent is too much for him to cope with. And he is ultimately insulated from any material harms -- he's still rich, and now you have no Twitter.
The billionaires have to live on earth too, you say? They would rather destroy it for everyone else rather than cede control, even to people better qualified or equipped.
@reneestephen This is something I don't think enough people appreciate. Kim Jong Un is perfectly happy being a zillionaire ruler of starving people. They don't care how bad things get as long as they're on top of what's left.
@smellsofbikes @reneestephen Exactly. It's hard for ordinary people to get their head around this, around the mindset of a despot. It's entirely foreign because it's psychotic.
