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Yes, he is, at least as he publicly presents himself. There are so many examples to choose from it is hard to pick one. I'm sure some of it is deliberate to cultivate a certain image, but it's not like Satya Nadella is going on Joe Rogan's podcast and smoking weed or tweeting while on acid and the media just chooses to ignore it.

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Could you link to some of those "on acid" tweets?

Well there is the one where he decided to call a guy saving kids lives a pedophile just because he said they weren't going to use the submarine Musk had his team build, back during thailand's crisis.

That's not a very sane reaction to have.

Most execs are PR/investor relations manufactured corporate clones.

They all have their own flaws, Elon just doesn’t give a shit about wearing his on his sleeve

Smoking weed and having a conversation while being a billionaire is "erratic and outlandish" why?

Because billionaires don't do that publicly? I don't care what Elon Musk does or how he acts. It doesn't affect me at all, but it's obvious that his behavior is unlike nearly any other high profile CEO.

As a thought experiment: find another CEO who has done an interview while high. It is extremely uncommon. Again, I have nothing against it personally, but there are norms that most CEOs follow and that Elon disregards.

>Again, I have nothing against it personally, but there are norms that most CEOs follow and that Elon disregards.

Most CEOs are effectively as easy to replace as the cleaning stuff wiping their desk is. Elon Musk however? He made a cult out of himself, even more so than Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates ever did. This level of cult building can be dangerous (e.g. the Bitcoin price hike/crash or his multiple incidents with the SEC), but also highly effective to raise money and to keep the mechanisms of the stock market at bay - Amazon for example is famous for not paying dividends, no matter the pressure.

> Most CEOs are effectively as easy to replace as the cleaning stuff wiping their desk is.

I feel like if this were true, boards of directors would be paying them the same as regular employees and not 320x as much, as is the current standard[1].

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...

CEO pay is a racket anyway, especially given that even colossal fuck-ups usually end up in a nice golden parachute.

Competent Elites

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKpByWmsZ8WmpHtYa/competent-...

It's a federal crime and grounds for stripping ones security clearance... unless you're a VIP who can get special treatment.

I was going to point that out. I feel this is way exaggerated.

Name a second one who did it in front of 10M people.

Possibly related: Marc Andreessen is referred to as "the world's most successful individual who has not done LSD with both Grimes and Azealia Banks."

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc...

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