The Tech Messiah Complex: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bankman-Fried — The Heroes We Don’t Need

6 min readSep 27, 2024

You ever wonder why we treat tech billionaires like they’re gods? It’s like we collectively decided that Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Bankman-Fried are the saviors of mankind, here to sprinkle their magical genius dust on us. Spoiler alert: they’re not saviors, and they’re certainly not geniuses. They’re just rich guys who fail spectacularly and then somehow convince us to keep worshiping them. Let’s take a closer look at these “visionaries” and the hot messes they’ve left behind.

Elon Musk: The $44 Billion Twitter Dumpster Fire

Ah, Elon Musk. The guy who brought us electric cars, space rockets, and now a completely trashed version of Twitter. This guy buys Twitter like someone buys an old beater car, but instead of fixing it up, he slaps on some Twitter Blue paint and calls it a day. And here’s the kicker: paid verification turns into a clown show where anyone with a few bucks can pretend to be someone else. Elon turned Twitter into the world’s most expensive scam app, and we’re all supposed to cheer him on like he just landed on Mars.

But wait, there’s more. Advertisers bailed faster than passengers off the Titanic. Disney, Coca-Cola, and half the corporate world saw the writing on the wall and got the hell out of Dodge. The result? Twitter’s revenue drops by a staggering 50%, and now the place is about as stable as a sandcastle in a tsunami. Musk’s leadership looks like a drunk guy trying to direct traffic — chaotic, unpredictable, and guaranteed to end in disaster. And his “free speech” crusade? Please. It’s a free-for-all where trolls run wild, advertisers panic, and nobody wins except for maybe a few Twitter comedians.

Mark Zuckerberg: Welcome to the Virtual Money Pit

And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg. Oh boy. Zuck bet big on the Metaverse, and by big, I mean billions of dollars big. He thought we’d all be strapping on VR headsets to live in his pixelated paradise, but guess what? Nobody cares. People don’t even want to live in the real world right now, and this guy thinks we’re going to pay real money for fake houses in his virtual playground? Yeah, no thanks, Mark.

Meanwhile, Facebook, the cash cow, is looking more like a cash calf these days. Users are jumping ship faster than Facebook can send you a notification about your third cousin’s dog’s birthday. And while Zuckerberg was busy pouring money into this Metaverse pipe dream, TikTok came along and ate his lunch. The company’s stock tanked, and the mass layoffs? That’s the price of trying to turn everyone into digital avatars when people are just trying to figure out how to pay their rent.

Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto’s Con Man

Then we’ve got the crypto “genius” Sam Bankman-Fried. Let me tell you something, this guy didn’t just drop the ball — he set it on fire and kicked it off a cliff. FTX, his crypto exchange, was supposed to be the next big thing, the future of finance, the thing that was going to revolutionize money. And what did he do? Gamble away billions of dollars like it was Monopoly money. Turns out, when you play fast and loose with customer funds, people tend to get pissed off — especially when they lose their life savings in the process.

FTX didn’t just collapse — it imploded like a neutron star, taking down the hopes and dreams of countless investors with it. And now Sam’s facing lawsuits that’ll keep him tied up in court for the next 300 years. He went from crypto king to financial cautionary tale faster than you can say “Ponzi scheme.”

Why Do We Worship These Clowns?

So why do we keep putting these guys on pedestals? Why do we treat them like they’ve got the keys to the universe when all they’ve really got is too much money and not enough common sense? The answer is simple: we’re suckers for a good story. We love the idea that there are these all-knowing tech wizards out there, working in their secret labs, changing the world one algorithm at a time. But here’s the truth, folks: most of the time, they’re just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. And when it doesn’t? We pay the price.

We love to call them visionaries, but what we’re really talking about is ego. These guys aren’t saving the world — they’re trying to see how far they can push their personal empires before they crash and burn. They’re not leading us into the future — they’re dragging us into their own fantasy lands, where nobody questions their wisdom because, well, they’ve got a lot of money. But let’s face it: money doesn’t equal intelligence, and it sure as hell doesn’t make you a hero.

The Final Word

It’s time to stop treating these tech moguls like gods and start seeing them for what they are: humans who make massive, world-altering mistakes. They’re not infallible, they’re not all-knowing, and they’re definitely not going to save us from ourselves. So next time someone tells you Elon Musk is going to solve climate change, or Mark Zuckerberg is going to build a utopian digital world, or Sam Bankman-Fried is the future of finance, just remember: these guys are winging it just like the rest of us. Only difference? When they screw up, it costs billions.

So let’s take a step back from the tech messiah myth and stop buying what these guys are selling. Instead of pinning our hopes on billionaires with too much free time, maybe we should start asking ourselves: who’s really benefiting from all this “innovation”? Because from where I’m standing, it looks like a whole lot of them, and not a lot of us.

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