Captain Eli(@TheCaptainEli):Most wealthy people will tell you the same thing: after a certain point, money isn’t why they work. It’s just the scoreboard. A way to keep track of standing. Elon Musk is still on that board. You can count the number. Record after record. He just doesn’t keep score that way. His metric is technologies that save lives — cars that prevent crashes, rockets that don’t get thrown away, satellites that reach a disaster when nothing else can, intelligence aimed at problems that actually kill people. Money is the lagging indicator. Usefulness is the game.

2026.09.16 11:17

Most wealthy people will tell you the same thing: after a certain point, money isn’t why they work. It’s just the scoreboard. A way to keep track of standing. Elon Musk is still on that board. You can count the number. Record after record. He just doesn’t keep score that way. His metric is technologies that save lives — cars that prevent crashes, rockets that don’t get thrown away, satellites that reach a disaster when nothing else can, intelligence aimed at problems that actually kill people. Money is the lagging indicator. Usefulness is the game.