Yep, there’s gotta be a whole raft of psychological issues that any human would encounter being raised above everyone else in wealth and entitlement and power. I’ve certainly seen a glimpse of it … just weird trains of thought that start to run free.

An interesting comparison might be with people who reach the top of their field, up to celebrity status, but in ways that don’t afford them mass wealth and power, just adoration and fame within a very specific, if sometimes prestigious, field. While you’d often find arrogance there, I’d also imagine there’d be more groundedness and even humility through knowing how hard it is to do good and meaningful work and how many others in the world are also doing good work.

He has the history of doing the first option, his whole thing is going to Mars. That's close enough to something good. The real problem is that he's just doing both.

South Africa went through a lot of trouble to get rid of people like him.