Weekly: Will Elon Musk, Trillionaire, Be A Wake-Up Call?

14 thoughts on “Weekly: Will Elon Musk, Trillionaire, Be A Wake-Up Call?”

1. We will eat cake and like it. Perhaps.

2. A tiny subset of the population has had great success in getting the vast majority to focus on race, gender and culture wars while they’ve been winning – with little opposition – the one that really matters, the class war.

   If I were to be granted authorship of the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, there would be an entry for those who hold onto and strive to multiply vast wealth that they can in no way reasonably utilize for themselves in the context of a society where too many are barely able to maintain food security, let alone financial security.

   1. Agreed about the distraction…feeling racially and morally superior appeals emotionally to people more than feeling helpless and inferior.

      Re: DSM. Narcissistic Personality d/o and/or Antisocial Personality Disorder(aka sociopathy ) probably have it covered given the symptoms of lack of empathy, entitlement, grandiose sense of self, etc

3. Aristotle: When too much wealth accretes to the top, social order will collapse?

   1. Not if humanoid robots with rifles patrol the streets.

      1. Humans can live without electricity.
         The very wealthy have the same problem as Cesar, they have to be in the room with other people at a certain point.

      2. When humanoid robots are patrolling the streets there will be no society.

4. If this continues, more and more of us will be…LIVIN IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

5. Quote of the week by Luke Gromen, “The elites are going to sacrifice the People to finance building their God in a box.”

6. It’s taken me a long while to realize that the argument that always boils down to “but Capitalism has given us all a better quality of life and is the best system to entice and sustain motivation” just completely overlooks that Capitalism has a major inherent flaw. It was pretty much inevitable that Capitalism, as practiced in the US, would become “shareholder Capitalism” and convince people that wealth aggregation of obscene proportions juxtaposed with abject poverty and need is ok. The ‘argument’ is really quite basic and simple when it’s framed as a flaw, it puts most of the rest of the arguments aside.

   1. It is not like this is a new problem. Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations warns of the capture of government by the merchant class and had suggestions as to how to avoid this.

7. Do people ‘rise up’ anymore? I know Americans will attend demonstrations with their Starbucks latte in hand, but will people actually risk their own lives in support of a general uprising? Even in spots like civil war Syria and present-day Gaza, there seems to be insufficient will to stand up to an armed military force even when the alternative is starvation and death. No more “give me liberty or give me death”. No more “Liberty, equality, justice, or death”. Maybe humans have become domesticated.

8. One thing to remember in all this is that death is a terminal genetic disease that will eventually take each and every one of us, including Trump, Musk, Ellison and all their kith and kin. Good riddance to all and to all and good night.

9. There would need to be a movement, the movement would need progenation and leadership. Heretofore, there has not been such a pro-human movement. In fact, those that would seek to further the fascist oligarchy (aka anti-human movement) have created the MAGA movement to capitalize on this current socio-cultural dynamic. The “regular/everyday” people who support MAGA have fallen prey to the lie that they are a part of such a pro-human movement, when it is obvious to any clear thinking person they have become pawns of the very thing they think they are fighting against.