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This whole Twitter story is so unbelievable it would not pass as satire...

I wonder if any books or research will be done with it couple years... Seems like there is lot to unravel here.

What lesson would a business school teach? Don't make any spur of the moment decisions to buy a large public company while you're going through a divorce from your slightly age inappropriate C-list (nothing against her but she wouldn't be as famous as she is without Musk) electronic music artist wife/whatever (I don't know if they were actually married).

To me the real lesson has been one that's repeatedly been driven home over the last 7 or 8 years - rich people are just regular people with more money. They like to push some myths about ability or some other moral justification about why they deserve more toys than the other boys and girls. The reality is they might have a bit more ability than most, but not 100X+ more.

And they are really needy. They need people to pay attention to them and include them in all the controversies. If they start to feel irrelevant they get a divorce or go on an authoritarian bender. Failing to grovel before a powerful person is the greatest affront.

Oh, this will, I assume, inspire high production value multi-season docudramas that will make the WeWork one look like a student project.

Quite looking forward to them, to be honest.

Farce. That’s what it’s called when you overshoot your satire.

I'm looking forward to a movie starring Bale or DiCaprio as Musk in a few years.

Whoever played Miles Bron would be good enough. He was not playing Musk by all accounts in that movie, but I have full confidence he would succeed perfectly.

So Edward Norton?

Yeah, he was really good in that role. And Musk role would be similar.

He's not nearly insane enough though. Johnny Depp might pull it off.

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