Elon Musk’s financial interests put him in a position of having his own personal foreign policy, but new reporting shows that whether it’s manufacturing in China or the Starlink network being used in Ukraine, Musk’s decisions can run counter to stated US policy.
He’s juggling fire. His money can only do so much to protect him if he makes enough mistakes fucking with these dangerous governments.
I disagree. Every other billionaire out there also has a shared interest in governments leaving the super-rich alone and not punishing them. That is a powerful lobby.
Interesting. I was unaware billionaires were so coordinated with one another, especially with regard to foreign governments.
In oligarchies like Russia, the ultra-wealthy (who often own small armies) are usually in dangerous competition with one another.
One of the reasons billionaires managed to gather so much power and influence in our current system is because they are more coordinated and way better at class warfare than us workers.
I’d say that and the obvious mind-boggling amounts of hoarded wealth are the two main ones. And never forget those billions are, for the most part, stolen from workers through wage theft, which circles back to billionaires waging class war on us.
Imagine not being able to understand the concept of shared class interest.
Very dumb to position oneself against the geopolitical interests of the United States while living there.