Musk's Functional Stupidity Demonstrates Billionaires Are a Social Blight
Elon Musk is functionally stupid.
The above comment is, believe it or not, not a comment on whatever native intelligence he might or might not have. How intelligent he would be in a normal setting has no bearing on his functional intelligence. Because Musk, and many rich and powerful people, do not operate in the normal space that you and I do. And as a result, many of them have become, functionally, morons.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, and arguably, given the illegal and unconstitutional power to decide whether or not to spend money congress has allocated he has taken for himself, the most powerful. Musk has been beyond rich for years, having the kind of “fuck you” money that insulates people from the consequences of their actions. In those environments, people tend to be surrounded by either people who want something from them — money, power — or who are afraid to lose what they have. If you find yourself in that situation, it is very easy to never hear anyone tell you that you are wrong.
If you do not cultivate an environment where people can look in the eye, tell you that’s the dumbest fucking idea they have ever heard — in precisely those terms — and not only not suffer for it but be rewarded? Then chances are you will never find out your ideas are, in fact, the dumbest ideas anyone has ever heard. You will become functionally stupid, because you will lose connection with the concept of right and wrong. Preventing this is possible — many businesspeople and politicians are aware of this danger and do in fact have the “fuck you, that’s stupid” people in their inner circle. Emergency responders and the military have entire protocols designed to ensure that the people who say “this is the dumbest fucking idea ever” can be heard and listened to.
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