Elon Musk’s Move Into Politics: Fighting Billionaire Control

A reflection on “the billionaires who’ve read our dystopias and mistaken them for business Plans,” and their belief that “there are ‘in-groups’ protected but not bound by law, and ‘out-groups’ bound but not protected by it.” We might counter this by exposing how Musk flogs “Potemkin technologies” that don’t work “in order to suck in naive investors and to feed a hype cycle that is hostile to workers and human thriving.” Which means focusing “on the material reality of what he’s delivering” and “the things that make him poorer and weaker, not the things that help him sell more nonsense.” Beyond musk, we are encouraged to recognise the unprecedented concentration of power in ‘cloud fiefdoms’, which demands a response that is “very, very different to the standard New Deal, social democratic European Manner.”