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Honestly it depends. Work can means a few different things. I doubt a farmer is working less than what he says. When Musk says he works 100h a week, that's probably even less than the reality, he is probably working 7*(24 - 7hour sleep) per week.

Not all work needs 100% focus. When you are CEO and you go in the kitchen and you smalltalk with employees, is it work or not work ? Imagine if the CEO didn't do it, people would say the CEO is not talking with employees.

But if the question is : Do people lie ? Yeah of course, like for any other subject



How much of that 100+ hours includes surfing the internet and posting memes to Twitter? Not criticizing him, everyone needs time to unwind…


Probably not much, but in any case, this is part of why he is successful in business, so you can't remove it as non work.


I‘m not trying to defend Musk, but his Twitter activities are highly efficient marketing.




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