What Does Elon Musk Want?

A recent study finds that disinformation about refugees is rife, seemingly the result of reactionary attempts to falsely pin our economic woes on migrants, rather than inequality. Former top-trader turned inequality-campaigner Stevenson makes an interesting case here that this creates a problem for reactionaries: if anti-immigration parties actually deliver on their promises, then we won’t have any immigrants to point at and blame. As our conditions continue to worsen, despite lower immigration, we may then turn on the reactionaries. Which means the reactionary parties and their backers have to somehow demonise immigration, whilst actually increasing it. The Conservatives tried this in the UK, and they lost power. How will this play out elsewhere, and what can we do about it? Stevenson encourages his audience, who seem to be trapped in a zero sum winner-takes-all mindset, to recognise that “you need to change the rules of the game and that means working together.”