This is true, and it also mostly says something about his ego not about how smart he is. No humans were ever smart enough to match that ego.

That being said I think he is being overly underestimated right now. Clearly he can bring something positive based on history.

I think he's made a major mis-step with twitter though.

SpaceX/Tesla employees work as hard as they do because they believe in the mission of the company. They're willing to just buckle down and do amazing things beyond most people.

Twitter had a lot of normal employees, however, it also already had the true believers in the mission. Those people don't seem to have bought Musk's vision and they're leaving the company. He wanted to get just down to those folks, but I think by and large, they're gone. I don't know that he can recover from that mis-step. He needed to come in, explain his vision and got the true believers onboard before he cleaned house IMHO.

I think more importantly probably all Twitter employees could find a similar job in 20-50 other companies in the area they live in. You cannot beat them up when there are still tons of employers willing to snap them up.

He must know this??

There a lot of tech layoffs and the market is nothing like it's been the last 15 years, so it's probably not going to be as easy as you think.

I could see working at twitter for the money or tough technical problems, but what mission could possibly convince you to work there?

It’s why he has succeeded all this time. You don’t get investments by being grounded. Privacy is regarded highly in the US which means less transparency. Take for example this: https://mobile.twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/15933075419... Shouldn’t confirming Elons university degree be extremely simple?

And if you are treated as a god for so long by your cult on Twitter, media etc then you start believing that you are one and then there is no way back until you get all the way to hell where you finally realize that you are a mere mortal and your huge ego made you a fool of yourself.

His ego really isn't what you are making it out to be. Has he ever said any of those things? In almost all the interviews he has he never talks about how smart he is, he talks about how good the engineers he works with are.