Comment by mandmandam

We don't know for sure what he did or didn't get. It could be something tangible, or intangible, or both - how would we know?

Who knows how much tax Musk saved the .01% over the next ten years by crushing Twitter? It could literally be trillions. Handy crowd to owe you a favour.

Billionaires have class consciousness, while most commenters here and elsewhere really don't. We all have more in common with the average homeless person than with Musk. The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars. And Musk is a billionaire hundreds of times over.

So, assuming that he cares too much about his reputation or a small fraction of his money (again, he didn't even buy it with only his own money) to ever intentionally harm Twitter would be a mistake.

Like I said, even if it helps prevent discussion of a wealth tax it could be worth the spend over the long run - though I'd bet there's more to it. It's a little too clumsy and obvious how he keeps trying to destroy the site while pretending to care about free speech.