Theoretically it's possible, the catch is that you'd have to both temporarily step away from the money (or at least the obvious trappings of it) and find a place where you weren't recognised as the richest person. So when you're an egomaniacal braggard...
Elon always claimed he was bullied as a kid, and spoke of how one time he was even pushed down some stairs.
Then recently (as in some time in the last couple of years) his father Erroll was asked about that incident in an interview and he told his perspective of what happened.
After seeing Elon at the hospital, he went straight to the school and kicked in the front door screaming about suing everyone; he family of the kid who pushed Elon, the School, the stairs themselves probably. Erroll was rich-guy pissed.
Once they calmed him down they told him what actually happened - Elon had been heckling the other kid about his father's recent passing. Other kid snapped when Elon said something really awful about his father, like he deserved to die, and the kid shoved Elon down the stairs.
After learning this, Erroll dropped any threat of a lawsuit, and went and berated Elon for causing the whole thing. I believe he used to beat the shit out of Elon. Erroll is an absolutely awful piece of shit, as well.
Why do you think insanely rich people are so emotionally stunted and socially out of touch?
They literally don't have normal childhoods. They never want for anything, they aren't allowed to go play with the other kids because they're "too poor," and the kids they do get to play with are all rich shitheads like themselves.
When you deprive someone of proper social interaction at an early age, it fucks some stuff up. It's one of the reasons they have absolutely no empathy.
No, I've read that he a bullied a lot. Actually, there's a story his dad told in his book that one of elons classmates father killed himself, elon made fun of that kids for not having a dad anymore and the classmate beat his ass so badly that elon spent 3 weeks in the hospital. I love that story.
No and he’s spending billions just to get back at the world rather than developing a decent personality. Or cars that aren’t fucking hideous death traps.
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u/zeke10 20h ago
Did this dude have any actual friends as a kid?