Other tycoons felt envy for Musk when he ravaged Twitter's workforce. We're told this -- a certain tolerance for ruthlessness -- is the price we pay for efficiency. But whatever good comes of it accrues to the already rich, before we even get into how some costs are socialized.
The environmental damage and the depletion of natural resources, for example. Cheap shit is what we get. But 'cheap' is relative, and decades of irresponsible living are catching us up. And the cheap shit has crossed the line into a diseconomy, the buying of stuff out of habit or compulsion.
Consumerism that isn't making us happy. It's making us miserable.
We got scammed. And a scammer king became president -- not the first, but a more flagrant one. It goes on because the dupes -- a crook's 'marks,' as they're called -- are invested in denial. Wouldn't you be, after decades as suckers? And the rich aren't satisfied. Still. And they never will be.
Hence his fellow technocrats envy Musk his private heaven of unchecked power.
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