Any time he thought he could run a business, he proved he can't and would ruin it. Then he got some fame, and more money, and fell down the rabbit hole of his empty lonliness.

His biggest contribution to society had been a grasp of the future of technology (but not the technology) and willingness to throw huge sums of money at those technologies when no one else would. He used to hire bright people and stay out of their way.

Musk is almost as big a sack of rocks as Trump, and frightfully more coherent and competent. I've been watching him for over a decade, and he's an absolute mess.

Good question. Not sure if that's a more comforting model than we're just bags of chemistry getting in the way of being our spiritual selves, but maybe.

Happy Monday! I'm Patric Rogers over on FB. IIRC, part of the "Circle of Shay" about a million years ago.