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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by roomey on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:26AM (#43010721)
Mental breakdown?

No, he is greedy, this is greed. He is greedy for power and money.

As Terry Pratchett alludes to many of his books, the problems start when you treat other people as "things". And this is rife at the moment. So mental breakdown doesn't really cover it.

Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by bdhcuidbebe on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:15AM (#43012386)
yea, his mental breakdown.

Come on, you cannot have missed this.

We started seeing signs of it when he called that diver rescuer a pedophile. Most recently its been him high on ketamine doing hitler salutes on the inaguration

Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:36AM (#43012560)
Musk is the living embodiment of the ultra rich wet dream.

Nazi salute (two actually) on national television? Destroy government extra legally with presidential pardon immunity? Bust on minorities etc with social impunity?

He doesn't just have eff you money, he has eff you status. No longer being restricted to the milquetoast middle ground CEO trap. Unrestricted treatment of low money people as subhumans. nothing like rights or laws to get in the way.

Thing is, his stock is very very tied to perception, which is a synonym for "hype".

You can see this emerging unrestraint coming from virtually all of silicon valley "leadership". Allin podcast. Zuck the MMA wannabe. Larry Ellison (the archetype) in orbit with trump. Gleeful twitters about eliminating all jobs with AI.

And yet we are entering an era of geopolitical uncertainty, war, reonshoring of manufacturing. To fight looming conflicts with China and Russia, what is needed is functioning institutional democracy, not venal banal oligarchical corruption.

The other historical danger is that the rich poor gap is indicative of a forthcoming rebellion of the lower class. Trump is himself a symptom of this, and while the poor continue to divide themselves between the two parties, Trump shows that wild unpredictable swings in voter sentiment can bring unexpected candidates to the fore.

All it takes is one charismatic candidate to pledge to cull the rich and being universal healthcare...