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They don't benefit though! This is bad for them too! Elon Musk is way poorer today than he was on inauguration day. What's going on right now is, truly, only g
by sanderjd 2y ago
They don't benefit though! This is bad for them too! Elon Musk is way poorer today than he was on inauguration day.
What's going on right now is, truly, only good for nations that benefit from a week United States.
But that realization is not (yet) evenly distributed.
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoThey do benefit a lot. They may have a smaller amount of money relative to what they could have had, but they have a LOT more power than they had before.
- sanderjd 2y agoIf the comment had said "the five most powerful people", I wouldn't have quibbled with it. But the overlap between the richest and the most powerful is not perfect, and the rich people outside that overlap are gonna be pissed.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoBut they will become considerably less rich while beconing no more powerful.
- thrance 2y ago"Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven" I guess. In terms of wealth they may have lost some, but they absolutely gained power. Fascism is only about power, it doesn't care about anything else. Especially not stability or rationality.
- sanderjd 2y agoNot all of them have gained power in exchange for the wealth.
- Muromec 2y ago>They don't benefit though! This is bad for them too! Elon Musk is way poorer today than he was on inauguration day. If the end goal is to become authoritarian shithole, then no, he isn't, as the government he captured will be buying teslas and space launches from him at a price he sets, quantity he (co)decides and quality that nobody oversees. That's a pessimistic take.
- sanderjd 2y agoWe'll see! That might be the goal. I'm pretty skeptical that is going to work. And a big part of the reason why is that there are a lot of wealthy businesspeople in the US, and that would be bad for most of them.