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I'm not sure where you see any indication that he doesn't care about people. If anything he seems to care quite a lot about people. Most of the reason for what

• ben_w 4y ago
  "Not caring" is not where I was going with that. It's the lack of alignment with normal people that makes me think of "let them eat cake" — it's very easy to be blind to someone else's economic realities with a mere x2 change in income, let alone when you're so rich your debt is the bank's problem if you mess up. That said, there also seems to have been a set of significant personality shifts in the last 12 months, starting with Twitter being "yeah, I can afford it *shrug*" and him not even doing due diligence (he used to be cautious and signal risk of e.g. rockets exploding), to trying to back out of the purchase and saying the bosses were defrauding advertisers, to saying the purchase is a perfect opportunity for an "everything app" and comedy was ok now, to complaining about the advertisers who started leaving right after he let anyone blue tick themselves and some jokers got a blue tick and names suspiciously close to advertisers and memed away in various high-profile brand damaging satirical retorts against them. I don't know if that's a mid-life crisis, side effects of prescription medication, experimentation with nootropics, recreational drugs, or something else, but he doesn't seem stable right now.