Such an ascent, of course, erases all manner of things out of Musk’s history. As I detail in my new book United States of Oligarchy, Musk also owes much of his wealth to something else: a willingness to succor autocrats and dictatorships around the world, even if it’s against American interests. This is true most especially out of China, where Musk recently served as one of Beijing’s biggest boosters, publicly praising the country’s decades-long dictatorship, linking Tesla’s fortunes to Beijing’s, and helping the regime whitewash its ongoing genocide of Uyghurs.
Americans Live in the 'United States of Oligarchy' With Elon Musk at the Top
https://zeteo.com/p/americans-live-in-the-united-states
5 Comments
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 46d
When has it ever done anything different in the history of the country? Literally never
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 46d
Err not disagreeing with the spirit of your point but wealth inequality is far worse than it has ever been in the US, by quite a large margin.
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 46d
And even when it was lower it was still run by oligarchs who were propping up dictators. It always been run by oligarchs, for oligarchs, and it has always been at war for its own interests over the interests of the majority, whether domestically or globally
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 46d
Damn immigrants. /s
asg101@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 45d
The U.S. has ALWAYS been an oligarchy, it was baked in to the Constitution from the very beginning. Only rich, white males had the right to vote, and even after they allowed others to vote, rich white males still held all the real power.