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WarGamer

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Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:20 PM Mar 2025

I want to talk about the psychology of Elon Musk and why he's doing what he does. [View all]

It's been said that the genetic urges for human males are f*cking and fighting.

The first urge is pretty much unchanged but the second has adapted as man began to live in communities and developed culture.

What's it like being Elon Musk?

Start with the wealth. Off the chart wealth.

To him... money has become meaningless.

Unlike Bezos and Zuck, he has no yacht and no mega mansion. He sleeps on the floor of the Tesla factory and in a manufactured home on the property of SpaceX in Texas.

He famously works 100 hours a week although I suspect much of that time is playing video games or screwing around on Twitter.

I'm not going to get into his mental health but he seems to be a bit of a man child.

When Musk wakes up in the morning, he looks for something to do. He no longer needs to hunt... for women or possessions.

So what does he do?

He finds things that a) annoy him or b) excite him and he takes action with or against them.

Musk has taken a cultural, societal and political stand because it's the most difficult quest of his life.

And that's POWER. The same urge to build up your player in a video game with new suits and power and abilities.

Musk wants to change the world and put humanity on Mars.

Because he believes ONLY HE can do it.

He's not looking to be the most powerful guy in the room... the company, the town or the State...

He wants to do things that NO ONE in the world can do.

Politics is now his latest "start-up", his latest reason for waking every morning.

It's his new adopted life.

I'm not a Psychiatrist... and didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn last night...

But Musk seems like a poster child "narcissistic megalomaniac".

He's dangerous because he doesn't care about money or people in general. It's all a game.

To add: net worth is nothing more than a totem for Elon Musk... a monument to how much of a "man" he is... he actually spends very little money. He spends less per year than the average NFL franchise owner or MLB all star pitcher...

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