@terry888jones@lor.sh

Well this is something that I see with public figures all too often, they interact with and react to their audience, kind of giving the people what they want, because it is lazy and easy and has the positive reinforcement.

When a person acts a certain way and people react giving them attention for doing it, they are encouraged to not only keep acting that way but to double down and act even farther in that direction.

Musk is in that situation where he has enough money and resources that he doesn't have anything holding him back. He is free to completely lean into the modes of behavior that society is encouraging.

In other words, most of us wouldn't be able to troll the way he does because we have to put down the keyboard and show up for a day job. Needing to earn a paycheck is a pretty good stabilizing influence for most people. For someone like Musk, that's not a requirement, so he is free to just be completely untethered, and just troll 24/7 if that's what works for him.

Anyway I just wanted to emphasize that his behavior is a result of how society in general encourages him to act. I sure wish we would all stop reacting to him the way we do, so he would stop responding to us the way he does.