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“Actual power keeps a low profile; actual power doesn’t need a social media presence, it owns social media.” So where does Elon fit in here?
by spacemadness 3y ago
“Actual power keeps a low profile; actual power doesn’t need a social media presence, it owns social media.”
So where does Elon fit in here?
- kipchak 3y agoI think this depends on whether you assess Elon as actual power, or something closer to new money trying to put themselves in the position of being actual power.
- phoe-krk 3y agoIn the greatest circus on the world, where he's the head clown, watched by millions. Keeping a low profile and covertly performing power is actually possible if you distract everyone else with being an ultra-rich obnoxious idiot online. I obviously can't prove it (even more so because it's unlikely Elon is more than an ultra-rich obnoxious online idiot), but it's an entertaining thought nonetheless.
- JohnFen 3y agoHe doesn't.
- robertlagrant 3y agoElon Musk is only powerful in that he is productive or enables productiveness, producing things that others find valuable and hard to produce. I.e. he's powerful in the capitalist sense, not the political sense.
- LordShredda 3y agoHe fired half the Twitter team,where does the produce come from
- robertlagrant 3y agoElon Musk is only powerful in that he is productive or enables productiveness, producing things that others find valuable and hard to produce. I.e. he's powerful in the capitalist sense.
- jahewson 3y agoWho else owns Twitter?
- hooverd 3y agoHe could stayed Tony Stark in everyone's imagination if he had just shut up, instead he's Gob Bluth.