He also runs tesla, twitter, xai, boring company, that brain thing company, government agency and has like 10 kids. I'm scared.

> TLDR: The status quo elite that have been looting the USA for decades is being replaced by the guy who runs SpaceX and is the most transparent elite we've ever seen. Why is that scarier?

The reason why it's scarier is that for those of us who've come to understand Elon, his actions, and his methods better, it's clear that:

- he IS "the status quo elite that have been looting the USA for decades"

- instead of being an incredibly smart polymath who turns things to gold, it's become obvious his main talent is actually just convincing other people that he's smart

- the successes of Tesla and SpaceX have had to come DESPITE Elon's management, and despite having huge budgets to hire some of the smartest people around, he's still an incredibly weighty anchor pulling them down

- rather than being transparent, he's playing at being a showman - and people who are only passively observing the situation are getting sucked into it

Ah yes, replacing the ‘elites’ with a single person, much less scary. And, to be clear, the ‘elites’ are still in power (because, in America, power tends to follow money). The only thing that seems to be happening is the rapid destruction of any system Elon deems ‘bad.’

We aren’t better off at the whims of this robber baron, and I don’t understand how you can think that.

I honestly don't know if you are being sarcastic or not. I really hope for the former.

The brains that run and made SpaceX are anonymous engineers working long hours and passionately applying their expertise to a project they believe in. Elon is a man-child tweeting an average of 50 times a day (number not made up), pretending to reach max level in a popular video game and then bragging about it, constantly flying between Mar-a-Lago and the White House in his private jets. He has no time to actually manage "his" companies, of which he puts no work in whatsoever.

You have to finally break free of this myth of the billionaire self-made man, building his fortune at the sweat of his brows. At some point, you're simply so rich that however stupid you are, competent people will still manage your capital well and make you even richer. You can only fail upward.

Do not mistake the current events for anything but an acceleration of the theft of your country by billionaire oligarchs (or rather the people managing their wealth).

To quote Marx on the current churn in the US government:

>The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

LLM training—and the massive (potential) copyright infringement that everyone is engaging in to train these models—is the latest contradiction in capitalism. For the first time in my lifetime, this contradiction isn’t harming the workers but is instead affecting a segment of the capitalist class.

Not since the abolition of slavery has one class of capitalists required the destruction of another to modernize the means of production.

We are in for an interesting decade.