He’s exactly as evil as Henry Ford and for all the same reasons.
And it’s important to recognize that his accumulated wealth is, ultimately, incredibly precarious. He’s riding a bubble and a lot of his behavior is about getting out ahead of the big POP! he sees coming.
No, the more you have, the more incentive to be evil.
Also works with power to make decisions, obviously. Especially to make decisions for others.
That’s where the “small government” thing comes from initially, but unfortunately it can’t come some evolutionary way from benevolent oligarchs and politicians voted in. You have to defeat them both first, managing to avoid creating a new vertical power structure, and if successful, creating a clean environment, and then you can build something.
Now comes a question, though, why build something that has been tried and has devolved into what you have now, and will devolve again much faster, not in a century or so, but in a decade or less, because you can’t make the environment clean in all dimensions.
He’s a special category.
Lots of people are evil because they want to have more than anybody else.
Elon already has more than anybody else in the history of the planet, and he’s getting more evil.
He’s exactly as evil as Henry Ford and for all the same reasons.
And it’s important to recognize that his accumulated wealth is, ultimately, incredibly precarious. He’s riding a bubble and a lot of his behavior is about getting out ahead of the big POP! he sees coming.
No, the more you have, the more incentive to be evil.
Also works with power to make decisions, obviously. Especially to make decisions for others.
That’s where the “small government” thing comes from initially, but unfortunately it can’t come some evolutionary way from benevolent oligarchs and politicians voted in. You have to defeat them both first, managing to avoid creating a new vertical power structure, and if successful, creating a clean environment, and then you can build something.
Now comes a question, though, why build something that has been tried and has devolved into what you have now, and will devolve again much faster, not in a century or so, but in a decade or less, because you can’t make the environment clean in all dimensions.