Elon Musk brings a sink to Twitter HQ. Does the world's richest man want to be always in the news or that's how he is?
With great power comes great responsibility. The quote is probably true if we are watching a Spiderman movie, but in real life, it is more like 'with more money comes the greater power to act crazy'.
Some billionaires like to do weird stuff and pretend their opinion matters on everything including global politics and whatnot. This could be for two reasons: one, they are genuinely interested in the needs of the working class or they like to be in the news. (we are clearly writing about this).
The world's richest man on earth, Elon Musk, who runs top companies like SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and OpenAI is often in the news, though mostly due to his tweets.
DailyO takes a look at Musk's craziest behaviour and his most controversial tweets:
1. Brining literally a sink to Twitter headquaters:
After deciding to buy, then not buy and now again very close to buying Twitter, Musk is now finally meeting staff and workers of the social media company. While going to the Twitter office in San Fransisco in US, he brought a sink to complement his Twitter post: 'Let that sink in'.
2. Smoking marijuana on Joe Rogan podcast:
3. Saying video games are actually reality:
We do like the concept of Metaverse and Video games being so close to reality, however, during an interview with Vox, Musk said that human beings potentially exist in a video game. He added how video games would become indistinguishable from reality at some point in the future.
4. Saying he will buy Manchester United:
5. Didn't take Covid-19 seriously...
We had the first case of Covid-19 in 2019, which baffled the whole world, but guess what Musk said in 2020? 'The Covid panic is dumb'.
6. Supporting Ye aka Kanye West for President's election:
Kanye, who is now currently locked out of Twitter for his anti-semantic tweets, once wanted to run for President of US, and his friend Musk said that he will give him his full support.
You have my full support!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2020
7. Caused financial loss to its own company due to his tweet:
While talking about his own company Tesla, he claimed the stock prices are too high, as a funny joke, which costs the company millions of dollars as the price of the stocks degraded Tesla's value. Several stakeholders were mad at him for this joke.
What is wrong with you! This tweet alone just lost me over £300. I literally have half my savings in Tesla stocks (only 4 stocks) but that is going to be my funds when I go to uni this year.
— Steven (@stevenhaynes10) May 1, 2020
Just because you can don't care if you loose money, stop screwing over your shareholders!
And if you think that's it, you are quite wrong, check out some more...
I put the art in fart
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2020
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2020
I keep forgetting that you’re still alive
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2021
And, no, I'm not an alien...but I used to be one
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 12, 2016
Oh btw I’m building a cyborg dragon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2018
I’m trying to set a good example! Population collapse is a much bigger problem than people realize and that’s just for Earth.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2021
Mars has a great need for people, seeing as population is currently zero.
Humans are the custodians of other life on Earth. Let us bring life to Mars!