Elon is ultimately a victim of his own tragic stupidity. He wanted to believe that he was always the smartest guy in the room and paid handsomely for smarter people to pretend that he was.
But then he bought Xitter and reality caught up with him. A middling intellect with barely surface knowledge of every venture he pollutes with his presence.
The real tragedy is what all those smart people could have done with all those resources if they weren’t being led by a fuckwit.