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$44 billion say he can't burn down Twitter. If he burns down Twitter, he has to sell most of his Tesla shares. He'll fight tooth and nail to make Twitter work.

The problem is that eagerness to do a lot of work combined with incompetence & arrogance is by far the worst combination for a CEO, and I think Elon is exhibiting it with Twitter.

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If he was in any way trying to save his stake in Twitter and Tesla, he wouldn't be acting out the way he is. Dude's completely divorced from reality at this point.

My wife's tinfoil-hat theory is that, after reading about the amphetamine problem at FTX, that many of the Effective Altruism cultists (Elon included) are hooked on speed and making some really horrible decisions.

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