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I think we need more Elon Musks, yes. Although, obviously, we don’t want more people who got rich by being politicians.
by Tycho 4y ago
I think we need more Elon Musks, yes.
Although, obviously, we don’t want more people who got rich by being politicians.
- FpUser 4y agoI have a suspicion that if Elon Musk types were given free reign we would end up with people working overtime for pennies.
- bandyaboot 4y agoFunny, I’d cite Elon Musk level capital accumulation and his decisions on how to allocate his capital over the last year as a perfect case study of the theory that, while capital accumulation can be a good thing, we also don’t want all our eggs in too few baskets.
- Tycho 4y agoActually it’s quite good - because he spent $40bln we got to see detailed evidence of government agencies working hand-on-glove with corporations to censor information and shape political outcomes (a few years ago it was trendy to refer to this as arrangement as “fascism”).
- bandyaboot 4y agoWe got to see his curated version of that. Someone who has become a firmly entrenched partisan cultural warrior.