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by fake-name 1335 days ago
> You (statistically, possibly not literally) know someone, and call them a friend, who is, as a person, worse than Elon.

No, I don't, because if I find out someone I called a friend behaves like Elon does, *I cut them out of my life*.

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> billionaires are supposed to be perfect people chiseled out of ivory.

Billionaires have the outsized ability to strongly impact/harm FAR more people then some jerk who works a normal day-job and just says racist things to their friends over beers on the weekend.

So yes, I think it is a moral obligation of people who have the ability to impact thousands or millions of people's lives to take said responsibility seriously.

The fact that Elon has so much leverage over the world, and continues to act like a flaming dickbag in public I think should cause far more castigation of his behaviour.