I was commenting mostly on the mass confusion in our culture surrounding these issues. Our collective enthusiasm to further trust and empower such people is a symptom of our collective condition.

We have been hypnotized to measure only one or two things and blinded to the rest.

Money can be made much faster in the absence of empathy and care for others.

Musk is great at underpaying engineers, pushing his workers, manipulating stocks.

I couldn’t - not because of merit but because of internal discomfort and turmoil.

“Leaders” without such internal regulatory mechanisms can get further, faster, partially because as a collaborative species we don’t have strong built-in protective mechanisms against exploitation.