Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Ghosn and Musk, the new megalomaniacs

It’s a bit of a coincidence that I watched “The curious case of Carlos Ghosn” a documentary that aired on Netflix at about the same time Elon Musk was making big waves with Twitter

The media circus around these two, makes me lamenting why such smart individuals are losing their bearings to indulge into a form of megalomania that can and will hurt them if they don’t chose to backtrack from it. 

But can they really? Is that kind of devolution baked-in with the obsession of making even more money and become even more famous? 

Today, Ghosn has become a prisoner in what Trump would call a “shit-hole” country. Can he turn around his fate around by seizing political power in Lebanon, thus gaining a political immunity he’d badly want in the process, and turning the failed Mediterranean country into the “Switzerland of the Middle-East” it once was. 

As for Musk, he may lose his investment in Twitter altogether, if not a good portion of it, and if he’s not careful, Tesla and SpaceX could go south as well. Instead, he still has so much to offer and can make its enterprises even better and more amazing! 

Can someone talk some reason into these megalomaniacs and would they even listen? I hope it’s the case...

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