If Elon Musk was primarily driven by making more money, there'd be many easier ways than what he's been doing and is actively working toward doing

Whether you think he's evil or good or whatever, at least we can agree that he's smart enough to know how to make a lot of money from his existing assets without working 12~18 hours doing one moonshot after another.

Nobody in their right mind would start a rocket company in order to make more money. I feel like he just wants to play real life Factorio and he wants everyone to tune in on his Twitch account and watch him play. Meanwhile he was trying to fix democracy [1] (and protect his own companies) by buying Twitter and at some point he realized he fucked up.

But who knows, I could be wrong.

I'm not exactly a fan. I'm not exactly against him either. He just seems like a hardcore geek to me that got way too much money and way too much buy-in.

[1] I'm not saying I that I think he was fixing democracy. I'm saying that I think that he thought he was fixing democracy.

This is really a matter of taste, but i (personal opinion) think that Zuck, Karp, Thiel and others who (partly by sucking the inauguration dick) have the ear of the current powers that be, produce much more demented shit than Musk. But the exact personalities really don't matter, the whole jolly crew running the show does not seem very humanistic in their writings or actions.