Yeah it comes down to Trump’s increasing grip on state power (which could go any direction, from placing loyalists into a gutted executive or collapsing it all) vs. Elon’s wealth and MIC and media connections.
Technically trump could leverage state power to do anything to Elon but it will of course piss off the bourgeois. So this may just be a “kept at arms legnth” for months or maybe a year before one of them starts mouthing off publically. More likely Elon. But it really comes down to brainrotted senile brain vs drugrotted impulse brain i think. may the best win!!!
I think Musk has made enough of an ass of himself on an interpersonal level that the other top capitalists don’t like him and would be okay with the state crushing him, as long as it was for petty individual reasons instead of a political philosophy that threatens them.
I guess he’s popular with the sort of smaller capitalists who own boat dealerships. I don’t know how much power they have though.
There’s also another component of Musk where he represents the capitalist mythos of the “great man” who rises to the top by his own merit, thus proving capitalism really is meritocratic and fair. Even though it seems that the mythos is dead due to just… well observing Musk making an idiot of himself everyday, to alot of non-online people it is still there. Heck, I even remember seeing some recent interview with Mark Cuban, who is by no means pro Musk and doing this interview to promote Harris, praise Musk’s ingenuity. I think capitalists value the mythos represented by Musk, even if they dont believe it or dont personally like Musk.
I wouldn’t underestimate the capitalists class to express solidarity.
I wonder if they could forget about that solidarity if they were offered Elon’s companies? Like a deal where his companies are nationalized and redistributed to more “worthy” successors. Might be too mouth watering for them to care, including thinking they might be next.
But still this would be China levels of the state asserting itself over the bourgeois which means it would never be done. It goes against the entirely overarching ideology and would instantly cause complete and total capital flight (good for us obvs but bad for them).
Yeah it comes down to Trump’s increasing grip on state power (which could go any direction, from placing loyalists into a gutted executive or collapsing it all) vs. Elon’s wealth and MIC and media connections.
Technically trump could leverage state power to do anything to Elon but it will of course piss off the bourgeois. So this may just be a “kept at arms legnth” for months or maybe a year before one of them starts mouthing off publically. More likely Elon. But it really comes down to brainrotted senile brain vs drugrotted impulse brain i think. may the best
win!!!
I think Musk has made enough of an ass of himself on an interpersonal level that the other top capitalists don’t like him and would be okay with the state crushing him, as long as it was for petty individual reasons instead of a political philosophy that threatens them.
I guess he’s popular with the sort of smaller capitalists who own boat dealerships. I don’t know how much power they have though.
There’s also another component of Musk where he represents the capitalist mythos of the “great man” who rises to the top by his own merit, thus proving capitalism really is meritocratic and fair. Even though it seems that the mythos is dead due to just… well observing Musk making an idiot of himself everyday, to alot of non-online people it is still there. Heck, I even remember seeing some recent interview with Mark Cuban, who is by no means pro Musk and doing this interview to promote Harris, praise Musk’s ingenuity. I think capitalists value the mythos represented by Musk, even if they dont believe it or dont personally like Musk.
I wouldn’t underestimate the capitalists class to express solidarity.
I wonder if they could forget about that solidarity if they were offered Elon’s companies? Like a deal where his companies are nationalized and redistributed to more “worthy” successors. Might be too mouth watering for them to care, including thinking they might be next.
But still this would be China levels of the state asserting itself over the bourgeois which means it would never be done. It goes against the entirely overarching ideology and would instantly cause complete and total capital flight (good for us obvs but bad for them).