Separate from the Eat the Rich discourse, I think a lot of Musk's behavior can be explained as an arrested development and youthful desire to (re)find himself in his forties and fifties. Andrew Callaghan recently described him, half-jokingly, as a "stolen valor white supremacist" because Musk adopts the persona and imaginary of edgelord 4chan memes from 10 years ago.
Separate from the Eat the Rich discourse, I think a lot of Musk's behavior can be explained as an arrested development and youthful desire to (re)find himself in his forties and fifties. Andrew Callaghan recently described him, half-jokingly, as a "stolen valor white supremacist" because Musk adopts the persona and imaginary of edgelord 4chan memes from 10 years ago.