He’s always been a shit head like this. He just got rich enough that he thought he could get away with showing his true colors.

The dude comes from a family of slave owners and was born with a silver spoon up his ass.

What is wrong with him? I think he legit needs psychiatric help.

He is a Narcissist. Yes, that is a medical condition. He is thoroughly unable to recognize other people as equal. They are mere nuisances.

Eh you spend your whole life getting away with anything because you have the money, you end up starting to believe your own bullshit.

One of the reasons so many people are rich is because they make money off the smart or the hard working. You never do the work yourself because you legitimately aren't the best person for the job.

I think Elon bought in too much during the wave of "I'm a tech genius who put a car in space, make electric cars and spaceships" and I think he actually believes he did that instead of the countless and thankless hours of all the real professionals.

The problem with this thinking, is now he feels like he ^needs to do something. Just like that micromanaging boss who doesn't help at all and just spouts random nonsense thinking it will magically make it go faster. But instead he's just self sabotaging the process.

This is what happens when you start to believe your own bullshit. If he was smart, he should walk away and let the professionals handle it.

He's more and more turning into Trump minus the dementia. In Germany we have the term "Cäsarenwahn", for when someone loses touch with reality from having too much unchallenged power. Haven't found any English equivalent so maybe it's time for another loan word.

Excessive wealth definitely leads to bad mental health outcomes for the wealthy.

The wealth and power leads to their becoming detached from the rest of humanity. They start seeing others as objects instead of people.

What is wrong with him?

He's gone full Howard Hughes.

I think he's just stupid and never actually had to run a company. Make insane demands and people had to figure it out

They get this way partly because they’re surrounded by yes men.

To take an example of someone like Harvey Weinstein. They don’t typically come out of the gate asking people to get naked for a movie role.

But they might first just be handsy with people and nobody says anything so it becomes normal, then they start caressing people and this becomes the new normal. Before you know it you’re fucking insane.

To put it simply, people don’t normally notice incremental changes in people and over time these can become pretty outlandish.

With Elon it’s that nobody ever tells him he’s wrong and before you know it you think you know everything.

I'm pretty sure he's high, like, all the time now.