Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter

that was my wife's question - why are these epic losers the ones running things
I didn't have an answer for her

Most of it is tech money, a lot of it from Web 1.0 days or earlier. Tech industry at that time had a not unearned reputation for being a haven socially awkward weirdos.

Turns out when they get a bunch of money and power, they get a lot of new bad traits while maintaining their preexisting ones.