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> What actions/behavior of his make you think he's sociopathic? Just look at the way he's been treating Twitter employees. For example, making a joke by bring

> What actions/behavior of his make you think he's sociopathic? Just look at the way he's been treating Twitter employees. For example, making a joke by bringing a "sink in" [1] the company right before making pre-announced firings. That episode right there tells you he's more concerned with making a joke for the lolz than about the emotions of his new employees, which is a pretty clear sociopathic action. [1] https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-purchase-sink-jokes-memes https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-purchase-sink...

bheadmaster 4y ago
What would be the acceptable performance when laying people off, from your perspective?
- FartyMcFarter 4y ago
  For the specific example I mentioned, it clearly could have been handled much more sensitively. Don't make bombastic jokes when entering a company you're about to eviscerate. It looks tacky, insensitive, and leaves a bad first impression on the people working there.
  - bheadmaster 4y ago
    > It looks tacky, insensitive, and leaves a bad first impression on the people working there. Sure, but is it enough to call a person a sociopath? By that definition, every rich person sheltered from ordinary working man's reality is a sociopath.
    - FartyMcFarter 4y ago
      That was just an example. There are other reasons why I think he's likely to be a sociopath, from his bullying behaviour to his increasingly out-of-control impulsive tendencies. I'm not a doctor so I can't make a diagnosis, but if you really are interested in whether he's a sociopath or not there's plenty of material online with indications on that. Here's a list of signs of sociopathy: https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-sociopath/ https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-sociopath/
  - raducu 4y ago
    There are dozens of stories that show Musk is at least a narcissist with very little empathy, not necessarily a sociopath, but it's the same for the rest of the world. Elon's callousness is legendary -- read what his first wife had to say about him, people close to him and the way they were fired, the way he named his son with Grimes, the way he baselesly insulted a hero diver as pedophile, the fact he has so many children he barely sees them.
subradios 4y ago
So the world in which this incident shows sociopathic behavior is the exact world that Musk (and I, for that matter) disagree with. My impression of prestige tech is that large parts of the industry are children because the money tree kept everyone in cold brew hop teas and catered lunches regardless the usefulness of your product or your monetization strategy.

bheadmaster 4y ago

What would be the acceptable performance when laying people off, from your perspective?

FartyMcFarter 4y ago
For the specific example I mentioned, it clearly could have been handled much more sensitively. Don't make bombastic jokes when entering a company you're about to eviscerate. It looks tacky, insensitive, and leaves a bad first impression on the people working there.
- bheadmaster 4y ago
  > It looks tacky, insensitive, and leaves a bad first impression on the people working there. Sure, but is it enough to call a person a sociopath? By that definition, every rich person sheltered from ordinary working man's reality is a sociopath.
  - FartyMcFarter 4y ago
    That was just an example. There are other reasons why I think he's likely to be a sociopath, from his bullying behaviour to his increasingly out-of-control impulsive tendencies. I'm not a doctor so I can't make a diagnosis, but if you really are interested in whether he's a sociopath or not there's plenty of material online with indications on that. Here's a list of signs of sociopathy: https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-sociopath/ https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-sociopath/
- raducu 4y ago
  There are dozens of stories that show Musk is at least a narcissist with very little empathy, not necessarily a sociopath, but it's the same for the rest of the world. Elon's callousness is legendary -- read what his first wife had to say about him, people close to him and the way they were fired, the way he named his son with Grimes, the way he baselesly insulted a hero diver as pedophile, the fact he has so many children he barely sees them.

subradios 4y ago

So the world in which this incident shows sociopathic behavior is the exact world that Musk (and I, for that matter) disagree with. My impression of prestige tech is that large parts of the industry are children because the money tree kept everyone in cold brew hop teas and catered lunches regardless the usefulness of your product or your monetization strategy.