2 ms·
I see you giving Elon "Osturf" Musk some grace. Yes, he is just an individual person. Yes, he has access to massive amounts of resources; he plays the game of N
by meristohm 2y ago
I see you giving Elon "Osturf" Musk some grace. Yes, he is just an individual person. Yes, he has access to massive amounts of resources; he plays the game of Neoliberal (that's Hayek's term) Capitalism handily. If we were still in the Keynesian model (also based on colonial looting, but the discrepancy in rise of the proverbial boats is less) we might not yet be in as obvious an oligarchy, and more of us might be involved in representative democracy.
Now though, it might be too late to do much by whether or not any of us use his platform, as he can just lie about its popularity and vote in other ways with his many dollars. Depending on what enough of us actually want for our future and that of the next hundred generations of humans, there are other actions to consider.
Move fast and break things?