Pretty sure it’s not weighing in on physical violence, but emotional harm…

Counterpoint: musk has always been like this… but that’s not why he has been successful.

Money. That’s it. He has money. So he launched a pet project… and hired committed, intelligent people to work there. But listen to accounts of his “management style” — at SpaceX, they had to devote resources to managing him and distracting him from undermining their work.

Billionaires are more predatory, more selfish, and better funded than other people. Not smarter, more skilled, or somehow better people.

Libertarianism is just Classical Liberalism plus conspiracy theories. Objectivism is just using Classical Liberalism to justify antisocial tendencies. So they pair nicely.

Objectivism is pretty much just a justification for a conservative power-dream, where only the wealthy and the cutthroat survive.

It is, boiled down, saying “screw everyone else, selfishness will give you power.” So of course those who want power and those who are already selfish eat it up.