The richest man in the world is not an achievement; it is evidence of a lack of humanity and only a society deeply flawed and lost from what it means to be human can let such a man have so much power.
That is where we find ourselves at the time of writing. According to WHO, 1/11 people faced hunger in 2023. The richest 1% of people globally have pocketed $26 trillion (£21 trillion) in new wealth since 2020, nearly twice as much as the other 99 per cent of the world’s population, an Oxfam report revealed.
He has more power than anyone to solve human suffering but instead he spends his wealth on social media companies to inflate his tiny ego and stoke hatred and violence. Therefore, he is evil.
American entertainment have excited and warned the world for years about villains. Walter White, Darth Vader, the Joker etc. serve as the embodiment of evil.
Yet reality is stranger and darker than fiction. Villainy in the real world are the super rich men in suits, not men who wear make up and strange outfits.
When we have a real supervillain before our very eyes we cannot see it; after all the same country that has made the idea of evil famous voted Trump despite people knowing his alliance with Musk amongst other transgressions.
Since taking over Twitter, he has flooded it with race hate and white supremacist rhetoric. He has endorsed Trump, AFD and Reform UK.
This has and will impact minorities living in Western countries, not that he cares.
From a UK point of view, where I type this, he stoked the 2024 race riots saying civil war was inevitable.
He also boosted Tommy Robinson for his supposed work around Muslim grooming gangs despite Yaxley Lennon going to jail for almost collapsing two grooming trials, meaning he almost let rapists walk free and the prosecutor who brought them down being Nazir Afzal; a Muslim.
He also accused Jess Phillips of being a ‘rape genocide apologist’. After the murder of Jo Cox, it is not inconceivable to say he could have put her life in danger.
Musk is not a glitch or unique. He is a product of our capitalist system that allows billionaires to exist and gain power.
All billionaires on some level have to have a level of psychopathy. To retain that much money whilst people starve to death is callous.
Zuckerberg, Bezos and others are the same they are just less recklessly open about it as Elon.
In a sane society, we would tax them to redistribute their wealth.
We should look to push for politics willing to do that.
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