Elon Musk

Alan Harper's Tash said:
Imagine having that amount of money and not wanting to use a tiny fraction to actually help people, but to boost nefarious grifters.
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He's treating humanity as a real life version of The Sims.

His mind sees it all as a video game where he always wins and that's all that matters.
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
No human should have that amount of money and associated power. It’s not good for them, and it’s certainly not good for everyone else.
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especially not a saffa whose dad was an apartheid loving racist, wife cheating, step daughter shagging ****.

Anyone brpught up in that society with that parentong then moving to the land of the gulible and consumerism was always gonna be a danger to the world
 
urban genie said:
especially not a saffa whose dad was an apartheid loving racist, wife cheating, step daughter shagging ****.

Anyone brpught up in that society with that parentong then moving to the land of the gulible and consumerism was always gonna be a danger to the world
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That amount of money would turn anyone into a ****, but he definitely had a head start!
 
TinFoilHat said:
He's treating humanity as a real life version of The Sims.

His mond sees it all as a video game where he always wins and that's all that matters.
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There are some parallels in the dilemma we have around Musk (and others) and those we have with terror networks. Though the nature of the threat each represents to society is different, some of the ethical and moral dilemmas about how we respond to them are similar.
In the case of immensely rich and powerful people like Musk, the practical complexity of enforcing legal frameworks to constrain them are such that the easier thing to do would be to arbitrarily detain them but to do so would go against the principles of natural justice that underpin our society.
 
threespires said:
There are some parallels in the dilemma we have around Musk (and others) and those we have with terror networks. Though the nature of the threat each represents to society is different, some of the ethical and moral dilemmas about how we respond to them are similar.
In the case of immensely rich and powerful people like Musk, the practical complexity of enforcing legal frameworks to constrain them are such that the easier thing to do would be to arbitrarily detain them but to do so would go against the principles of natural justice that underpin our society.
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We are in totally new territory.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
We are in totally new territory.
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Completely agree and at many levels.

The nation state as the core unit of power is on its arse and you can see governments increasingly becoming a revolving door of middle managers whose primary role is simply to manage the population. Not even sure if we aren't already past the point of no return on this, going to take something extraordinary to reverse the trend.
 
threespires said:
Completely agree and at many levels.

The nation state as the core unit of power is on its arse and you can see governments increasingly becoming a revolving door of middle managers whose primary role is simply to manage the population. Not even sure if we aren't already past the point of no return on this, going to take something extraordinary to reverse the trend.
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I suppose the real game changer will be if there’s a shift in miItary power from state to private hands.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I suppose the real game changer will be if there’s a shift in miItary power from state to private hands.
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I think so and I think we're in 'it's not dark yet but we're getting there' territory.

Obviously some western oligarchs have the means to raise private armies now but I suspect don't feel any need to risk overplaying their hand at this point.

I think Musk's Starbase City will tell us a lot. Currently the county's sheriffs dept are providing law enforcement there via designated officers. How he seeks to run that model going forward will be revealing I think.
 
I think he will eventually do something really crazy like start his own country and have a huge army thay he uses to invade countries that he deems too left wing.

Although I'd not be at all surprised if someone put a bullet in his head before that.
 
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