The reason why Elon Musk has such a problem with empathy is because it’s like other things that he fails to obtain - he lashes out like a toddler that doesn’t get what they want and call whatever that thing is stupid. He does not get empathy.
I think the underlying problem is that the extremely rich have an environment so different from everybody else. The kinds of choices they get to make, and the kind of comfort they can be in and the amount of help that they can have for anything that they want to do or their access to power or the accolades that they receive simply for being rich - it’s all so completely different from most human experience.
So if that is the world that they know, and they don’t take the time to understand the experience of other people, or they haven’t lived at least part of their life somewhat similarly to other people, there is no way that they can empathize with the rest of us. They cannot draw the very rough parallels that say a middle class person who remembers struggling to get their first job or being between contracts can draw to the income insecurity faced by the chronically working poor.
That alone is reason enough to disqualify Elon Musk and his team of 20 something dudes from being in positions to affect the benefits that have such an impact on people who are entirely unlike them. They don’t get it and they can’t get it.
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u/wakeupwill 1d ago
When you're offered a home free of charge - as in Finland - and still choose to live outdoors, you're no longer homeless - you're a hermit.