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We have to do precisely what we've done because it isn't working?
I'm not saying Musk won't find those people, I'm saying he has reduced the rest of his life to being surrounded by those people. A giant drop from what he was attracting when he began his startups.
If the rest of the US takes a realist view like yours then it is best not to waste time there and start to consider which economies accept US resources/credentials and will do better.. IMO, that's exactly what a successful Russian did in the 90s and why they aren't foolishly still in Russia submitting and becoming fodder.
Ruining such people's future prospects whenever this happens to reduce the future risk has been such a good strategy that countries like the US introduced credit rating bureaus to emulate this for managing risk with less famous people.
We are naturally in a very unusual time, but things will shift back and the facts will stay and reputational meaning will be interpreted correctly then.
There are always enough idiots to do business with if you are a famous connman, but your business is always of a certain limited category.
If he were poor and did this I think you'd admit he is a putz. I live in a free country where I can choose which market participants to deal with and see no reason to feel intimidated by the buying power of a putz I won't ever be foolish enough to depend on. The more significant someone is in the society the more likely they are to be able to afford my position and not risk yours.
Even if people in that part of the real estate market are desperate relative to their normal they have tricks to ignore business they don't want to deal with and take a lower offer from someone they either trust or at least don't distrust.
Making it obvious that the US is no longer a country of laws and contract law will work against people like him in the long run, so his take for a lot of future costs is irrational and I think he should finally deal with his mental problems.
Doesn't matter in this weeks market, but he can't even convince people he's capable of remaining a passive investor, so ten years from now no top spots, no top people because the way norms are enforced is by black balling people like him whenever it is tolerably inconvenient.
In some particular markets it may be helpful to only attract workers who aren't very confident, but in the longer term I think it would hurt possibilities to have a lot of the work force take a piss on your job offers. I.e. never the best in a niche, only whoever will entertain an offer connected to Musk.
It's really very easy to buy in to the dominant social narrative as an explanation for one of the many undiagnosable health incidents we experience in a lifetime, and the placebo effect confirms whatever is socially helpful.
Most of these social changes now originate or become big from the US first because it dominates international media.
Focus on classic Computer Science, I.e. Chomsky has a generative text model you should know. For better SWE, business and MBA are real, and Math/statistics/are real fields for Math modeling where someone who studied them 20 years ago still has a basis today.