

I think it’s like how The One Ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. This level of wealth, or the trappings that come with it, have mutated and perverted Elon into something that only echoes some scant memory of his former self.
See also: Bezos, Zuck, Trump, McConnel, etc etc etc





















Another example atop the pile of millions of others, that a lot (most?) people are stupid and susceptible to even very flimsy propaganda.