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you see this a lot from folks in finance and Silicon Valley more generally, especially post-COVID. granted, those folks are plenty wealthy, but nowhere near the wealth of billionaires or even most near-billionaires. it's all about collecting what's yours until AI cements the "permanent underclass"

Slavery, dispossession, mandated consumption. A techocracy by the few for the few.

On the bright side, the SpaceX IPO will cause many explosions. - Many aerospace disasters came from rushing - going too fast for safety. - Public companies tend to forget EVERYTHING except keeping shareholders happy. - SpaceX WILL rush timelines for stock prices, skip safety, and shit WILL blow up.

That’s because it’s fake.

OK that’s something I was wondering about. How much JP Morgan controlled vs these assholes.

Until this changes it will be hard to change anything else

Empathy is not part of their DNA.

"mass starvation and death" of poor black and brown kids would NOT put their wealth at risk since those populations are at the very/very margins of "wealth creation"

The Rockefellers in particular were really concerned with "overpopulation" for many decades, but they mostly channeled that concern into promotion of contraception, rather than actively trying to starve people to death for no profit motive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populat...

He's got plenty of money. Elon hates USAID because USAID helps poor people and brown people. He's obviously a racist and a fascist. And from South Africa, where USAID worked against apartheid.

They absolutely sucked but even they had a compulsion to do some good with their money, as evidenced by the educational efforts that bear their names. Meanwhile Musk gutted as much as possible and shows no sign of any impulse to help anyone but himself

I can go to a Carnegie music hall, library or museum. I have no clue why Musk decided that dead children would make a better monument for him.

Musk is basically a comic book supervillain and he understands himself this way. Maybe we really needed the concept in fiction before it could become reality. Our would-be overlords are not very original thinkers.

USAID WAS TWITTER CIA FRONT COGNITIVE CAMPAIGNS PROGRAM MILITARY PSYOP MUSK BOUGHT TWITTER FOR ITS PSYOPS CAMPAIGN PROGRAMS X IS AN AI MILITARY MAGA PSYOP PROGRAM AI GROK CONCURS ALSO GENITAL FLYNN MUSK THROTTLES EPSTEIN SNAP @janefonda.com @maryltrump.bsky.social @genflynn.bsky.social

Extreme wealth rots your brain and moral character, that is the evidence of all recorded history.

"..for the hell of it" is white(supremacist)-washing it. He believes in white replacement theory, eugenics and thinks white need to make more babies. Because there are too black and brown ones. So it wasn't just for "the hell of it" -- any more than Hitler killed Jews for the hell of it.

They’d want their names on the aid packages!

Not for the hell of it. That's some deep deep racist shit there.

That's a big but.

Doesn’t this fall on Trump?

It’s amazing what people can forget when their dividends are at stake.

For what it is worth, this anti-moral / amoral aspect of capitalism is why many conservatives throughout history have criticized it.

It's almost like much of the news media is also owned by oligarchs who share his white supremacist ideology.🤔

if the tech press interrogated how much of that death was a direct result of Musk being extremely credulous, stupid, and hiring other stupid weirdos the entire house of cards collapses

No, he wants to know that he could buy all of it. And now, he could. Twitter was a test.

He didn’t do it for the hell of it. He did it because he sincerely believes great replacement shit and wanted to kill a ton of black people to slow their population growth.

It did demonstrate why he needs a small army of security.

They were scared of going to hell and spent the second halves of their lives atoning for the first half. Elon thinks he’s going to live forever on Mars. I wish either of us believed in hell.

an Internet connection was the difference

We'll remember Musk for the colleges and libraries he set up.😏

Hey man what about Grokipedia

Turns out feeling shame and not being able to live inside tiny ideological bubbles 24/7 via a screen are both important to a functioning society.

not unless they were employing them certainly!

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one argument is that very high marginal tax rates combined with the continuing existence of firms with market power led to spending of profits that would have been heavily taxed if paid out to shareholders instead on prestige projects instead, like Bell Labs which invents the transistor.

Counter argument is that large organizations grow inefficient, with diffusion of responsibility and risk aversion. E.g., Musk has made risky bets on EV’s, rockets, satellites. But as we see with AI these investments can become too distant from broad demand, serving only oligarch interests

I dunno if it was less cynical given that folks like Pullman had to be buried in solid concrete to prevent people from desecrating his grave. There was definitely some pragmatism at work.

As an addendum, the Pharaohs of Egypt had people killed to protect their tombs, and we have them on display in our museums. This is the digital age, and whoever built your bunker used a CAD program somewhere, told someone, sold the location. Every Castle failed, breach, betrayal, time...

Technically Musk and Theil and their accomplices and accessories to their crimes, are not robber barrons They are the oligarchs that robber barons are to take to task

Religion.

Ah, all those 401k retirement accounts. Tech bros on their way to controlling all the capital in the known universe.

Disgusting.

Ah. Makes sense.

It's almost like they only care about being wealthy. open.substack.com/pub/christop...