Billionaires don't stop caring about looking like dumbasses just because they're extremely wealthy.

If they cared about how they looked, they wouldn't be doing what they do.

Maybe, but it doesn’t seem to stop them from actually looking like dumbasses. But that wealth attracts fans who constantly proclaim that their latest idea is brilliant.

Maybe we should pity the poor billionaires, hopped up on T or ketamine and trapped in an echo chamber…but I’ll think they’ll be ok.

In the case of Musk, I almost suspect he has some kind of humiliation fetish.

If this is true, then evidence indicates that I have a different definition of what "looking like a dumbass" means than many of our billionaires.

In light of these (accurate) critiques, I think I should've gone with my original wording, which referred to them still caring about their legacy regardless of how many billions they had. That's more what I was going for, but I dumbed it down, apparently too much.