Musk is either trolling, a complete idiot or playing 4D chess. I don't understand why he would make statements like this. He is a business man no ? He must understand that what he says may have an impact on his business.
I don't know why you're giving him the benefit of the doubt here. What in his history over the past few years has given you any evidence that he is not a complete fucking moron?
I'm always open to explanation. He did have success with many of his company. Just saying he is an idiot that got lucky does not feel all that satisfactory but hey, we all look at the man and see an idiot so maybe he is.
Or he has so much money that he just doesn't care to blow a couple billions. Afterall, you can live very comfortably with just a few millions dollars.
Musk is either trolling, a complete idiot or playing 4D chess.
This one is easy to answer: he is a complete idiot.
He must understand that what he says may have an impact on his business.
He has fuck-you money and there is nothing he can do that negatively impacts this, so he doesn't have to give the littlest of shits. That's what being absurdly rich means.
I think it's much more likely that he's just a bigot with way too much money and an ego so large that he cannot even accept the possibility that he might ever be wrong about anything.
That one falls under "idiot". To be a bigot when you have all the physical and intellectual resources of the world at your disposal requires either a deliberate effort to remain ignorant or the lack of mental capacity to process facts.
Those are just two different flavors of idiocy, and they typically go hand in hand.
I'm pretty confident in saying it's not 4D chess. His big mouth cornered him into having to buy Twitter for meme stock prices, then over the course of a year he managed to shit away more than half of it's value, LOSING more than 20 billion dollars.
He's not trolling, trolls don't throw 20 billion dollars in the fire just for a giggle.
He's a full on idiot. His greatest accomplishment and largest positive contribution to society is all the work he's putting in day after day to abolish the myth of Billionaire Exceptionalism.