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When he rose to fame he was portrayed as an engineer genius, and EVERYONE lied about it. It's not strange people believed it. It's not normal for this to happen.
I’d argue that rich people being touted as genius in subjects they know very little about and perform fairly poorly at historically until they throw enough money at it and surround themselves with actual experts is actually the norm.
No, most do not pretend to be engineers
All of the public ones do try to pretend to be super smart scientists and engineers and health experts. Like, Bill Gates likes to pretend that he's super interested in physics and that he wishes he could do more to contribute to the field, but that Epstein-associating childfucker is a fucking billionaire. He could literally hire the world's leading physics experts and teachers to train himself in physics. He could become a fucking expert so fucking easily, but, to be fair, he's probably too busy with child rapists to bother.
Every billionaire you see in the news tries to look like a genius instead of the lucky heartless monsters they actually are because they love being idolized instead of doing real fucking work.
They are sociopaths and that is obvious, but Elon the sly fuck pretended that his social ineptitude was because he was a genius engineer, and it was what everyone was instructed to say about him. If anything, a scientist has less time to research random celebrities. It's not about intelligence. It's not like a barrier that prevents deception like in the movies.