He’s a man who does things because he can. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and rather than simply hoard all that wealth like Smaug in the Hobbit he wants to make some use of it. Have some fun with it. Sometimes this is “for the greater good” and other times it’s merely “for Elon’s enjoyment”. This Twitter thing is a bit of both.
You can Tweet to Musk and he may reply within minutes. Sometimes seconds. World’s busiest man, you’d think, but also the world’s biggest shitposter. Loves to stir the pot. Loves to be the talk of town. Everything about Elon Musk has lead to this moment, and foretold of it. You can literally Tweet him right now and suggest him to buy Quora and he might actually do it because the value of this dwindling website is peanuts compared to Twitter’s 40 billion+ price tag.
Internet dictionaries define the type of man Elon Musk is as “an absolute madlad”, this being the technical term. You dare him to do something, and he will do it. Not always, but sometimes, out of the blue… he suddenly does. This is a man who goes from zero to 100 with an incredible and at times terrifying quickness. His biography will one day be titled “Woah, that escalated quickly”.
Why does Elon Musk do anything, ever? Because he wants to. Because he thinks it ‘looks cool’, because it allows him to dominate the news cycle and boost sales for his various businesses. Because he has money like water… and some tiny part of him might actually care for that illustrious ancient value called freedom.
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