Most people, especially on the left, seem to have no concept of this. In the same sense as mussolini, Elon is a fascist, not in the sense of being a racial supremacist like the German national socialists, but in the sense of his understanding that the state is a totalizing one, and if you go with the state then you will succeed and if you go against the state you will fail. His recent change of heart isn't because he's so principled about the right, but that he was perfectly capable of seeing the winds change.
None of elon's success has anything to do with his car company or his rocket ship company. Neither of them have sales that are commensurate with his wealth even remotely. The electric car company that was handed a factory by the state, and whose products were individually subsidized by the state to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle, it's given huge amounts of money in ZEV credits it sells to other companies, yet is nonetheless barely profitable. If his wealth was commensurate with the actual success of his car company, he might be a billionaire, but not much of one. He is as rich as he is because the government wanted him to invest in electric cars and he did, they wanted him to invest in space and so he did, they wanted him to invest in military technologies and he has, and he happened to be in the right place at the right time to soak up all of the dumb money that America's largest period of money printing in history created.
Now that it appears that he has changed lanes because the next while is not going to be related to the far left, many of those same government institutions that supported him are now attacking him. He's seen Court decisions go against him, regulators are starting to go after his car companies for all the unsafe things that he does, his plans to retrieve some astronauts from. The international space station was specifically denied by the California government because of his support of the wrong political party. Private interests that act in accordance with the state are rewarded and those who oppose the state are punished, more or less the definition of fascism.
I do want to be clear I'm not saying that Elon Musk believes that fascism is the right way to run a country or anything, only that as a shrewd individual he understands the game being played and he's playing it instead of the game he wishes was being played. I think this model of the world also explains the recent kerfuffle with maga with respect to immigration, because part of the fascist reward for following the state is favorable regulatory treatment.
None of elon's success has anything to do with his car company or his rocket ship company. Neither of them have sales that are commensurate with his wealth even remotely. The electric car company that was handed a factory by the state, and whose products were individually subsidized by the state to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle, it's given huge amounts of money in ZEV credits it sells to other companies, yet is nonetheless barely profitable. If his wealth was commensurate with the actual success of his car company, he might be a billionaire, but not much of one. He is as rich as he is because the government wanted him to invest in electric cars and he did, they wanted him to invest in space and so he did, they wanted him to invest in military technologies and he has, and he happened to be in the right place at the right time to soak up all of the dumb money that America's largest period of money printing in history created.
Now that it appears that he has changed lanes because the next while is not going to be related to the far left, many of those same government institutions that supported him are now attacking him. He's seen Court decisions go against him, regulators are starting to go after his car companies for all the unsafe things that he does, his plans to retrieve some astronauts from. The international space station was specifically denied by the California government because of his support of the wrong political party. Private interests that act in accordance with the state are rewarded and those who oppose the state are punished, more or less the definition of fascism.
I do want to be clear I'm not saying that Elon Musk believes that fascism is the right way to run a country or anything, only that as a shrewd individual he understands the game being played and he's playing it instead of the game he wishes was being played. I think this model of the world also explains the recent kerfuffle with maga with respect to immigration, because part of the fascist reward for following the state is favorable regulatory treatment.
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