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I think what it might boil down to is Musk thinking that the checkmark is for "clout" because that's what he thinks and he thinks everyone must think the same as he does. Therefore, it's something he think he can charge for and people will want it.

When really it's there so people know the person is who they say they are and not some fake troll account spreading shit.

So his whole scheme to make the checkmark buyable (and behind a paygate) both misunderstands the point of the checkmark for the vast majority of twitter users and will result in it losing whatever value it actually had to them by making it no longer fulfill that basic function.

I've actually read some halfway decent sounding ideas for how to implement changes to Twitter that might bring in some money but at the same time it's a bit difficult to believe Twitter didn't think of them themselves years ago.