Mastodawn

Paul Krugman Dec 20, 2022

This is not the dystopia we were expecting https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/opinion/columnists/elon-musk-twitter-oligarchs.html

Opinion | Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World

The cult of the genius entrepreneur has done a lot of damage.

The New York Times

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Busted Flush Dec 20, 2022

@pkrugman

Elon buying Twitter, and giving himself a platform from which to pontificate is a real life John Galt soliloquy played out in slow cringe-inducing motion.

And it illustrates the flaw in Ayn Rand's thinking. In real life, the wealthy industrialists aren't noble super men. Narcissism with a taste for authoritarianism seems to be their common coin.

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woollylogic

@BustedFlush @pkrugman There are certainly plenty of examples of that, but there also exist billionaires with significant public profiles whose philanthropy supports democratic goals.