Presumably they could control for that by looking at the stats for Fridays when no major album releases. And they could probably check what they were listening to at the time as well. But I wouldn't be surprised if you were right.
Even the Paypal stuff way before that was a clear indication of what he was like when you look back on it. That wasn't widely known at the time, though. My awakening was with the 'Elon Musk Is Not Your Friend' video from Some More News.
Even that late is being pretty generous. Anyone paying attention could have picked it up much earlier, but yeah, that was probably his first fairly public display of what he's really like.
I saw a Tesla in Brisbane the other day with one of those 'I bought this before Elon went crazy' stickers on it. When I looked it up on the rego check app, it was a 2024 model. Nice try, but no. :D
I'd say walking in front of and shooting the driver of a moving vehicle is a training issue. And I don't know much about guns, but isn't firing one-handed a no-no as well?
From Wikipedia "Mammon (Aramaic: מָמוֹנָא, māmōnā) in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain."
More or less the same thing, I reckon, but Mammon sounds cooler, so I'll defer to your's.
How will they rebuild if there are no serfs to do the work for them?