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You know how if you're bored and stuck at home and all you have to play is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; but you played the game so much and did all the stuff; so the only way left to attempt to squeeze a little more enjoyment out of the only thing you have, is find more and more creative ways to kill hookers?

Imagine you're a Satanic rich elite archon trapped in a meat prison on Earth, maybe that's why you eat babies and rape people in elaborate magic rituals.
@sun yeah, additionally many conventional ways of enjoyment are barred to people like Elon Musk. he cannot go on a road trip or go cycle in the forest. he can't attend a church service. he cannot see what's new in Walmart and try that new frozen pizza. he cannot volunteer for anything. none of the interactions he has during the day are real - it's all people who see him as the figure he portrays.

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@sun Musk's unlicensed biography says he puked from anxiety before each large business transaction. recently was reminded when he had to speak about the 500 billion losses and him excusing himself that he was under the weather
@sun @kaia I always compare our current crop of techillionaires with Bill Gates and wonder what particular demons or closet skeletons prevented them from doing what Bill did - 30 years of iterating on success, confident in their abilities, then retiring into philanthropy.

Bill obviously was / is no shining beacon or much of a role model either, but he keeps being the closest to "normal" and "sane" of all of his peers.
@pingviini @kaia yeah bill strikes me as a conventional business guy who liked computers. nothing microsoft does is innovative at all, hardly ever, at least not in shipped products. nearly everything good they produced they bought. his personal quirks are fairly normal, he cheats on his wife with multiple women. I am guessing but he probably didn't know there were underage girls on that island, he just wanted to pound puss without getting caught.