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Not trying to defend the guy, but come on - he bought a company, took it private, and he is now free to ruin it as he sees fit. > if people are able to operate largely without consequence, then they might act in antisocial ways - like musk, in this particular example If it happened to Elon Musk then he must’ve been bad from the start. I think some people want to believe it just “reveals character” as a defence mechanism, as in, that could never happen to them, they’re a good person, and they’d still be good even with wealth. I agree with you in that money and power corrupt. If people are able to operate largely without consequence, then they might act in antisocial ways - like musk, in this particular example.īut you wouldn't have to go outside your own daily lived experience to find all sorts of people doing all sorts of bad things because they are relatively unaccountable - they don't face real consequences for their behavior. and if not that, then some semblence of equality - of power, in particular.

It's why socialism has always probably been the answer.

Give everyone a hundred bucks and make them dependent on each other for survival, and watch antisocial behavior drop to near-zero near-instantaneously - i.e. and one might turn out to be like mackenzie scott. give anyone a billion dollars and watch most of them become monsters, probably. The difference is 'creates' vs 'reveals'. I'd go more with, 'wealth can allow one to become monster', or 'wealth creates monsters', or similar. Feel like this is probably demonstrably wrong, but too lazy to google it.