I disagree

I think the vast majority of people, if given a billion dollar company, would try to remain as hands off as possible. Don’t rock the boat, just take the paycheck.

The problem is that Emerald Apartheid doesn’t need twitter or whatever to succeed. Even if the entirety of the 44 billion USD twitter deal were to be taken out of his tesla/spacex stock and flushed down the toilet: he still has billions (google says 150-ish but those valuations would change as stock prices change) left to never have to work another day in his life.

Have you ever said “keep the change” while paying with cash or put down a larger tip than you otherwise would have because you didn’t have exact change (… and weren’t using a credit card for some reason)? That is the level at which this is.

And it is why any attempts to understand batshit insane billionaires through “normal” logic just don’t work