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> This super-villain narrative of Musk is hilariously comical. Where is it coming from?

For me it came from Musk downplaying COVID for financial gain.

Other than that, he's become proficient at discrediting himself as a reasonable, trustworthy person and presenting himself as a detached from reality lunatic who doesn't know when to stfu and how to behave.

When people like this have a lot (too much?) power that's when the super-villain vibe comes in.

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So do we all pick our own billionaires now? Like Musk is the villain of the Left and Gates is the villain of the right?

I reckon people should focus on fixing a system that allows individuals to amass such power/wealth. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

To fix the system, you have to hate both.

To break the system. To fix the system you need to know what you are doing and even then it's not guaranteed.

Downplaying COVID was the only thing Musk was right. See Sweden not following WHO orders had small bump in excessive deaths. Also average age of dying with COVID was 84. There are no factory workers at Tesla that old.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

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