SCOUT· 68%1h 11m·2026-10-30·Arts CultureElon Musk’s Endgame
Ahead of the midterm elections, Elon Musk has become the single largest campaign donor in any election cycle, giving about $450 million to Republicans. It is just a fraction of a percent of his near-trillion-dollar net worth. Musk’s control over SpaceX, Starlink, X, Tesla and Neuralink, on top of his riches, has given…
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“It's clear that Thiel, Musk, Karp, Bezos, et al have wealth and power at levels that skew their perceptions of reality and they all exhibit signs of concerning psychopathy in interviews. What's dangerous here is that we all share this plane…”
“No single person, let alone private citizen, should have this much power”
“The more I hear about how the tech billionaires and their organizations think, the more I am convinced they are becoming nonhuman in their thinking and attitude or even antihuman. What happens when you take the human out of humanity? Seems…”
“Why can't we just tax the filthy rich like we did in the 1950's? All of this really just comes down to Musk does not wanting to pay taxes and does not want to give up personal power.”
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