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> Which is odd as it directly goes against his own interests.

His recent interest is power. He can use that for profit later in many different ways - he's working on firing people who wanted to investigate his idea of using X as a payment network, for example.



That is a reasonable explanation. He is well past the point where people want money for spending power. Any billionaire is after power and status.




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