How To Become An Asshole AND A Millionaire

Start with $44 billion, buy Twitter, and act like Elon Musk

My grandmother used to say, "Into everyone's life a little rain must fall---rain, assholes, and assorted bullshit.

• Jenny Lawson

To proclaim that Elon Musk is an asshole is hardly breaking news. Nor is it particularly newsworthy. The man is as objectionable and insensitive as he is overrated and an exercise in self-parody. Unfortunately for the rest of us on the planet, he’s also the wealthiest man in the world, meaning he can afford to be a bull in a china shop and not care what anyone thinks.

For years, he at least tried to maintain the charade that he was a shrewd and savvy businessman, though no one who knew anything about himself knew that to be the case. He didn’t invent Tesla or SpaceX and built much of his empire using other people’s money. But, yes, he’s been successful at empire-building exploitation, so we’ll have to give him that.