The obvious answer is in plain sight but the author's ideology makes him blind to it. Musk is a new billionaire. Virtually none of this wealth has converted to

The obvious answer is in plain sight but the author's ideology makes him blind to it. Musk is a new billionaire. Virtually none of this wealth has converted to tangible usable wealth. It mostly sits in the floating number of tesla's stock price. If Tesla fails, he loses practically everything. Tesla practically can't fail anymore by itself. But more importantly, he has global sprawl. Factories in China and USA. He is incentivized around not having anything cause the failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_American_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_American_Civil_War This is the primary threat which concerns him. His intention with Twitter is to prevent this from happening.