Award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates shredded billionaire Elon Musk on his X platform over the weekend — and social media customers couldn’t assist however delight over her roast.
Oates, who quoted a publish from a person seemingly backing Musk’s take, addressed what she finds “so curious” about “such a rich man.”
“[He] by no means posts something that signifies that he enjoys or is even conscious of what nearly everybody appreciates,” the writer wrote on Saturday.
“Scenes from nature, pet canine or cat, reward for a film, music, a e-book (however doubt that he reads); pleasure in a good friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for somebody who has died; pleasure in sports activities, popularity of a favourite workforce; references to historical past.”
She continued: “The truth is he appears completely uneducated, uncultured. The poorest individuals on Twitter could have entry to extra magnificence & that means in life than the ‘most rich particular person on the planet.’”
Musk went on to assault the writer, declaring that “consuming a bag of sawdust could be vastly extra pleasurable” than studying her “laboriously pretentious drivel” earlier than calling her a “liar” who “delights in being imply.” He’s additionally notably replied to a lot of posts about motion pictures within the days since.
Oates, in a publish on Monday, wrote that her preliminary feedback had been “out of curiosity” as to “why an individual with limitless assets displays so little appreciation and even consciousness of the issues that most individuals worth as giving that means to life.”
“It’s spectacular that Elon Musk permits vital commentary of himself on X,” she wrote in a separate publish. “That isn’t normally a magnanimity of spirit commensurate with the acute sort of non-empathetic particular person.”