Poor People Are Cranks. Rich People Are Eccentric.

Musk: I think if anyone would know about aliens on Earth, it would probably be me. And I've seen no evidence of aliens. I would immediately tweet it out in a split second, that would probably be top tweet of all time, found one guys, jackpot. Eight billion likes, pic.twitter.com/tq8QsvrVBS

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 19, 2023

If he wasn’t rich, he’d be a random guy pushing a shopping cart with all his earthly goods, saying exactly this.

But since he’s rich, he says this on TeeVee and people still think he’s a genius. And they’d probably believe the tweet, too.