He's not wrong about that, but I think the root of the problem is with management. There's a problem with lazy and terrible management, not workers. At the company I work for, there are teams and teams of lazy good for nothing people everywhere. Most of them maybe do an hour or two of real work every week. When I talk to them, they are bored, aimless, and feel as though their work doesn't really matter. I strongly believe it's due to lack of leadership. Not management. Leadership. The department has no real goals. There are no projects solving real problems. Everything is just maintaining some janky tech debt or building some manual process because management likes their spreadsheets a certain way.
When there's a liquidation of management and a culling down to actual leaders, the workers will want to work. They'll find things to do because that's what people do in a good environment under a good leader.
The arrogance is primarily a management problem. There are too many in power that are at our above their level of incompetence. It's the Peter Principle on steroids.
Power? He has money. Nothing much else. The people that work for him are doing so willingly. The people that use Twitter are doing so freely. The haters give him more publicity than the people that adore him. People were gloating that if someone didn't like the platform they should leave and use something else. Now the tables have turned. Anyone that hates musk but uses Twitter is a fool.
I don't have that weird musk hatred fetish that many seem to have. But I also do not really like him. I like some of his actions and dislike many. I guess I could say I really don't care about musk at all. Anyway, one thing for sure is that the guy is insanely entertaining. It's been a while since since I've seen someone so monumentally screw up something that wasn't really that broken.
You left out the best part... The amount is often extremely low. Just a few grand to the old PAC that directly feeds their campaign which is just a slush fund for their personal use.
Anyone with a mediocre amount of business sense or anyone that actually owns / owned (or pretends they own via a mortgage) real estate knows exactly how terribly difficult it is to just keep everything running.
This alone explains why reddit and such have no damn clue why renting is so expensive.
Just like reddit, giving a specific source turns the discussion to the source. Go use your preferred search engine. I told you there's fish in that spot. I'm not going to hand you the fish because you don't like fishing.
But it's step 1 to moving off. Often just having the one place is what holds people back. I've migrated several people from Gmail by just starting with that as an easy transition... just giving out a different email with everything else staying the same.
A 17 yo in a gang that is shooting at other gang people and gets shot dead is the same thing as a 10 yo bystander?