Didn't Elon just tweet a few days ago that he'd be selling a lot of his personal stuff? That seems like he's being quite prudent and responsible if anything.
Everything he does is for PR. That tweet came out right before he got his bonus payout.
He's had controversy with the virus and his factories. By tweeting that out, he gave off a "billionaire doesn't care about money" vibe.
What got more coverage? His payout or his rambling tweets. He would have got more flak if the press covered his payout while he has been pushing his workers to get back into the factories.
> Everything he does is for PR. That tweet came out right before he got his bonus payout.
This is overly cynical. A fair bit of what he does is about PR - but not all of it. He's still human and it's pretty clear that he uses twitter as a stress relief mechanism (for better or worse).
Whether that was for PR or not is pretty unclear. It was basically simultaneous with him (according to him) having a fight with his girlfriend a few days before his child was born, and in the middle of him tweeting a bunch of nonsense that definitely wasn't for pr.
