@maxleibman - "You are not allowed to stop being my customer" is the application of the totalitarian impulse to business -
-- and the de facto outcome of monopolistic services like Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft - when it is so difficult to leave, or find other ways to do business..
The fossil fuel industry funds fascist movements globally under that exact same premise
"You're not allowed to stop being my customer"
Since Musk is funded by petrostate despots & oil oligarchs, like Alwaleed bin Talal, Petr Aven, & Vadim Moshkovich, his "confusion" is real.
https://archive.is/Togfe
https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5
https://www.politico.eu/article/sculpting-europe-in-maga-image-steve-bannon/
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/maga-gathers-in-european-parliament-to-attack-eu-laws/
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-friendly-european-think-tanks-donald-trump-funding/
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/10/donald-trump-uk-eu-maga-slush-fund-financial-times/
@Npars01 They are surely some of the worst and most dangerous offenders, but it has become rife in our business culture across sectors.
Marc Andreesen's terrible manifesto that said the social contract was Silicon Valley brings us innovations and in exchange we are supposed to make them rich and beloved.
The previous decade's "Millennials are killing X" headlines, every one of which was predicated on the idea that any company that ever had a profitable business was entitled to those profits in perpetuity.
And on and on.
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