True, but they _do_ broadcast their abhorrent thoughts to the world -- its just more subtle, filtered, and through different channels. Its the whole reason people are warned to never meet their heroes -- because they are usually assholes outside of whatever persona they have crafted for themselves publicly. Musk just doesn't care about crafting that persona in the first place.

Look at sports, where even at the "mere" multi-million dollar level, people get changed. The music industry and Hollywood are also famous for people being revealed to be mere human.

its his money.

Some of it is his money. Some was borrowed.

The lenders knew what he meant to do.

Literally just responding to this:

> its his money.

But that some of the money is borrowed can't mean that he can't say the things he does, especially when the lenders knew who he was to begin with.

I am not saying he can't say whatever he wants. My initial response was to the notion that any other person as CEO of SpaceX (or Tesla) would also be flawed. Which, obviously. But it is simply not the case that most CEOs are as loud about broadcasting their whims to the world.

Tesla is 12th largest public company by market cap, between Broadcom and Novo Nordisk. Those companies have CEOs, but those CEOs do not habitually make controversial statements on Internet fora. It is possible for a person to be flawed, but not to spend effort ensuring wide distribution of those flaws.

> Most CEOs do not spend $44 billion USD to broadcast their most abhorrent thoughts to the world

Zero CEOs do that.

I assumed that Musk wanted Twitter so he could have a built-out userbase for his everything-app idea, not because he wanted to have a particularly large bullhorn.