With no end to his wealth, Elon Musk can afford to be as immature online as he wants to be. And as reckless, too. SilvermanJacob writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photo: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg It feels like some kind of divine punishment that the richest man on the planet is also its most immature. Elon Musk — an oligarch responsible for overseeing several major companies and, perhaps most troubling, the lives of his seven children — has the emotional capacity of an 8-year-old boy attempting his first prank phone call.
This is all chum for his relentlessly devoted fans, who see Musk as the great populist techno-king, and a middle finger to Democratic politicians and other critics who think no one should have his kind of power. It’s a testament to our cursed times that Musk is almost assuredly going to get the last laugh.
A majority of respondents voted yes, but it wasn’t hard to be annoyed by the notion that taming billionaire wealth — which is to say, billionaire power — would be casually decided on social media. One of the aggrieved was Wyden, an influential voice on privacy, tech, and national security issues who happens to sit on Congress’s joint committee on taxation.
The important thing to keep in mind about Musk’s impetuous trolling is it’s all a sideshow. He will never have much that’s thoughtful, or even honest, to say about wealth or taxes or how one contributes to society. In Musk’s messianic vision, his job is to do whatever he wants, which currently means using his nation-state-level resources “to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness.
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