Related but not really : I dont know what Musk is playing at getting involved in politics. Youve got enough money to take part in any activity you like, visit disneyland while on acid, ride the longest zipline, underwater hotels, world’s largest hamster-habitat, literally anything you like for as long as you live and still leave your children with more money than a lot of countries have, and he chooses to do work?
You do realize how much Doge was able to dismantle specifically the parts of government that tax the rich, right?
But aside from that, people tend to conflate appearance for substance. He feels controlling the government makes him powerful because he appears powerful.
Related but not really : I dont know what Musk is playing at getting involved in politics. Youve got enough money to take part in any activity you like, visit disneyland while on acid, ride the longest zipline, underwater hotels, world’s largest hamster-habitat, literally anything you like for as long as you live and still leave your children with more money than a lot of countries have, and he chooses to do work?
He’s a broken person on the inside. He’s like homelander in the boys. All this power, but he’s still a sad little boy no one likes.
Unlike Homelander, Musk is not impervious to conventional hazards.
You do realize how much Doge was able to dismantle specifically the parts of government that tax the rich, right?
But aside from that, people tend to conflate appearance for substance. He feels controlling the government makes him powerful because he appears powerful.
I dont realise how much at all, I imagine it worked out amazingly well for him, but still. It’s just more work.
And opens him up to future potential liabilities (maybe, if the world every course corrects) as well as an uptick in bullet risk.