I agree with your analysis of Mr. Musk’s motivations, although as a creative by nature and marketer by trade, I can’t help but feel my profession being a little unfairly singled out by your use of it as a pejorative. I mean, marketing is just a tool we’ve developed to promote the best ideas out there.

This is my first night on Nostr and I’m already promoting to those friends I know will get its relevance. That’s me “marketing.”

Like with all tools, it is largely about how you use them. I use a pen to doodle, but I could also use it to stab someone’s eye if I was into violent stuff.

Still, I agree with the sentiment.

Though I take the kinder view: Musk is what happens when you we lose track of our own internal values, stop using them as a compass and let adulation go to our head.

It could happen to anyone, even founders, engineers, etc. In fact, after many shitty experienced in Silicon Valley with founders who drank too much of their own koolaid and used others ideas to aggrandize themselves, I know for a fact that it does.