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Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’
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I think what's really coming through in recent times aided well by Musk, is how profoundly average these billionaire geniuses really are, despite their extraordinary lives.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing, after all, you or I aren't typically judged in the same way for being just ordinary and it might even be comforting that they're just people after all, but the problem is that we've geared up society in such a way where they're basically king's (and I choose Kings, not Queens deliberately).
The positions they hold demand great people, even a good person will not suffice. If we're to have these demi-gods profoundly influencing society they'd better be something special. In the past, there was an idea cultivated that royalty were divine representatives, in the modern context they create a similar myth of genius expertise that is manifest and evident because of their wealth, but sadly the reality appears to be that they're special for being wealthy, not wealthy because they're special.
This doesn't bode well in a society that allows billionaires to exist.