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kleinbl00 · 2159 days ago · link · · parent · post: Elon Musk unveils his company’s first tunnel in Hawthorne, and it’s not a smooth ride
It was called the Gilded Age and led to feel-good stories such as the Haymarket Riots. You could have said the same about Cornelius Vanderbilt. These are not perceived barriers. These are checks and balances to make sure that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. When you sit there in your dudgeon fantasizing about the displaced California okies destined to camp on your lawn and shoot you in the coming Water Wars, know that shit like this is what will drive them from their homes. Musk is a garden-variety technolibertarian whose interests are not with the rank-and file.He's what happens when a marginal Chaotic Good/Chaotic Evil gets a lot of cash, and a head of steam.
Musk is the most punk rock guy in business today.