Since it’s private, Elon could be content with a steady (adjusted for inflation) annual profit, which would allow him to make decisions that are good for the long-term health of the company.
He just sucks.
If it were public, he wouldn’t even have the option to not suck.
Because despite not realizing it yet, human consciousness is just a next-word-predicting LLM, and the dataset most Americans are trained on has those as the most common next words.
It’s still important to know. It changes which bars I go to that day. The one attached to a steakhouse gets too busy, so I go to the one in a bbq restaurant.