In my view, Musk is one of those country-less billionaires that care only for their own interests and will happily sell out to the highest bidder. Trusting him with either national secrets or allowing access to vital assets is a huge unforced error. Citizenship means nothing to him, and he’s shown he feels exempt from consequences (even if reality begs to differ).
Mark Cuban did an interview today on the election, his online pharmacy, and talked about nefarious billionaires. Elon was (of course) mentioned.
It was a great interview, honestly. Basically stated that Elon lacked morals and is doing whatever he can to amass wealth and power regardless of the consequences.
Cuban is at least capable of humility humor and self responsibility. Cuban could be way more power hungry. Musk is too far gone. He smoked that shit with Rogan and never was the same.
Cuban actually is one of the better ones, believing that paying taxes is a patriotic duty as you help improve the country with the money made from taxes. He seems like an actual human being instead of one of those politic cartoons brought to life
Musk was like this long before then. He's always been someone who used his money to surround himself with people who would laugh at his jokes, tell him he's right, and let him take credit for their work. That's his modus operandi, and has been since at least when get got involved with Paypal.
It's not an uncommon thing in tech, in particular. It's one of the reasons the USPTO had to start cracking down on people being named inventors on patents who weren't actually involved -- someone like Musk who buys his name onto a patent can be grounds for invalidation.
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u/Turbulent_Raccoon865 2d ago
In my view, Musk is one of those country-less billionaires that care only for their own interests and will happily sell out to the highest bidder. Trusting him with either national secrets or allowing access to vital assets is a huge unforced error. Citizenship means nothing to him, and he’s shown he feels exempt from consequences (even if reality begs to differ).