Ahren Strange
LAURENElon is not about revenue at this point. He has arrived as the richest man on earth. He is about control. The Tesla board approved his $50B pay package. Money is not his goal when wielding Starlink. Think for a moment. Twitter and Starlink are tools and weapons he and other large investors are wielding to determine the outcome of elections and wars.
Yes, he controls a significant portion of all communication channels in the world. Don't know how else to put it so that people understand that this is what determines our future.
Mastodon MigrationAnd has demonstrated that he is not hesitant to use this unique communications capability, afforded to him by the US Government via licenses granted to utilize LEO, to destabilize other nations, effect their political processes and to actually interfere in their war efforts.
LexiGirl@noondlyt I hope the American people elect Kamala Harris as a massive f-you to not only Trump but to Elon Musk. To tell him that although he may be another rich white dude who seeks to control the masses, he will not win.
Phil
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@noondlyt Frightening.
Thank you for stating this so clearly.
Not enough people fully appreciate that his agenda is entirely about wielding power. Everything he does needs to be seen through this lens.
yoused@mastodonmigration @noondlyt What else is a few billion dollars good for? Once you get past maybe ten or twenty million, you start to run out of toys to spent you money on: above the comfort level, money is absolutely about power and nothing else.
McQuiniac@noondlyt NationalizeStarlink
Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦@noondlyt I remember when Bill Gates was declared the richest man on earth as he had collectively accumulated $40B. Now that's just some one guys salary (whom makes Bill Gates look nice, which is pretty damned hard). What will it take for our leaders to rein this in?
@chetwisniewski @noondlyt Leadership?
Maybe a guy who walks with crutches and uses a long cigarette holder?
notsoloud
xs4me2It is about power and about control. The power and control only nations should have.
We have reached the endstage of neoliberal capitalism. A very dangerous one.
Continue down this road and create a totalitarian world where these selfproclaimed tyrants will rule or contain and neutralize this perversion so the power will return to where it should be. In elected unbiased democratic hands. Tax them and do a Standard Oil on their assets. No man should have this power.
Oli@noondlyt
This. And here I am again, urging people to look into "Longtermism", the philosophical view Elon and other ultra rich support: The survival of humanity - not its individuals - at all cost. Whatever he does, I always think about how this fits into this "99% of them dying now is better than 100% dying in the long run" philosophy.
This. And here I am again, urging people to look into "Longtermism", the philosophical view Elon and other ultra rich support: The survival of humanity - not its individuals - at all cost. Whatever he does, I always think about how this fits into this "99% of them dying now is better than 100% dying in the long run" philosophy.
aardvarkExcept that he cannot see the future nor control it. It is an extremely defective philosophy and is embraced by inherently narcissistic people with fatal flaws as core personality traits.
AxelPolleres (Q54860587)@noondlyt especially the latest stunt on how to act towards sovereign goverments (Brazil) is - independent of whether one agrees with their legislation - extremely irritating.
Andreas K🤷 Let's be honest, for most of the right-wing media, it's at least a mixed calculation. Even if they make money for their owners, it's always also about the influence.
He is not a rw media owner. He is not a Murdoch. He is singularly the richest man on the planet with no family that has claws in his businesses. Every single one of his companies receives subsidies and government contracts except for Twitter. Twitter has the bonus of retaining every government account for most countries on its platform. He is not like anything else in existence. I wish he was.
LR@noondlyt it makes perfect sense that he befriends the far right, because they are the most violent, most likely to assassinate him. he keeps the loyal hounds so close, he can, to a degree, even dictate what the far right is about.
he didn't invent this; others have done this since well over 60 years. the greatest flaw in his plan is that unlike others he is way too visible. a loud and obnoxious target making new enemies every day.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@noondlyt I wish more people, most particularly billionaire-class people, understood just how unstable oligarchies are by their nature. If this idiocy continues, sometime in the next generation the intra-mural assassinations will begin, and then there will be a chance for healing. Or we could do their progeny a favor now, and tax them all back to normalcy.
Breathe@noondlyt exactly. If we survive this assault on democracy, I hope we find a way to limit the amount of wealth accumulation. I think $999 million should be the maximum permitted. Any money over that should be used for helping our society achieve peace. Peace through healthcare, housing, food security, education....
Gatekeeper..@noondlyt
He doesn't care, the money was fronted by people who want America to fail. Two Russian oligarchs , a Arab oil tycoon, and even old Jack Dorsey has a little taste.Thats why he over paid for it.
He doesn't care, the money was fronted by people who want America to fail. Two Russian oligarchs , a Arab oil tycoon, and even old Jack Dorsey has a little taste.Thats why he over paid for it.
Yeah, I knew this from the word go. It's why I moved to Mastodon in April of 22 not later when he walked through the door. I have been fairly vocal that he didn't buy Twitter to make money, not with the Saudis involved. My theory which has yet to play out is that he intended to declare bankruptcy with Twitter and then the Saudis as the next biggest shareholders would have the first option to pay the roughly $14B in debt owed, scooping up twitter as a key part of US assets in their portfolio. His public announcement last year about how much it had fallen in value was for nobody but the shareholders and the public to lay groundwork for a rock bottom price for a critical communications co.