Elon is well known to leap before checking everything on the other side. That's well within the norm of his behavior. For the record, I'd actually prefer if he didn't buy Twitter as I care about him spending that time on SpaceX instead. Getting us to Mars is a much bigger problem than fixing one minor social media platform.
Most of the "behavior" that is reported about him is exaggerated, taken out of context, or outright lies. So no, in general I don't have huge issues with his current behavior. It's a lot better than it was back during the time period when Tesla was having a lot of financial issues and he was an emotional wreck.
> His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine.
Not fine, or you just disagree with? Two very different things.
Both. I mean, I totally love that he's obsessed with Culture novels and named his money team "Excession". But I think his behavior is antisocial- rich person acting almost entirely from ego.
It's rather fascinating to me that Musk entirely missed the point of the Culture novels. Banks was a socialist, writing about a socialist utopia that literally goes in to intervene and overthrow billionaire oligarchs like Veppers in Surface Detail.
Veppers is even trying to wiggle out of a contract he doesn't want; it's a central plot point!
I didn't particularly like Surface Detail. But, anyway: I think the Culture is post-scarcity, computer-managed, not socialist. Socialist systems deal with scarcity. If people in the culture truly wanted to play with money, there would always have been some station or ship they could go to and play with money.
His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine. Which is a real shame because the core of his business activities right now is great, and his behavior constantly distracts from that.