Elon Musk: ‘Aren’t You Entertained?’
I think this part tells you everything you&#x27;d need to know:<p>&quot;We turn to his views on government and politics and the Twitter Musk appears, the more emotional, unrestrained persona that comes across in his frenetic posts. He is lauding billionaires as the most efficient stewards of capital, best placed to decide on the allocation of social benefits. “If the alternative steward of capital is the government, that is actually not going to be to the benefit of the people,” says Musk.&quot;<p>Might as well return to having kings and queens huh, after all what is more righteous than divine intervention? And in any case, why stop at billionaires? Corporations are worth trillions, wouldn&#x27;t they be even better suited to decide the allocation of social benefits?<p>Honestly, this much is known. I think Bill Gates shares this perspective, that somehow because they are billionaires they know better than the rest of us. But excuse me, not everyone has had the chance to be born in such privilege. The economic structures of our world will always produce billionaires because market systems often tend to concentration of capital and this concentration of capital and money is clearly translated into concentration of power which in turn makes the process even faster. Of course these people are talented and smart in many ways but it&#x27;s silly to think that they would have the capabilities of solving the world&#x27;s problems. I mean, why aren&#x27;t they already doing it? It feels like somehow we&#x27;re back at the gilded age.<p>Here&#x27;s my opinion: If someone thinks they are capable of making tough decisions for hundreds, thousands, millions of people then they are probably not the right person to make such decisions. Personally, I believe decisions should be made collectively and locally and we should have systems capable of bubbling up decisions from the local communities into the global sphere. But the decisions themselves has to reside in the small groups of people that are actually affected by them, not in billionaires who will go to a restaurant and order a whole lamb just to have a taste because they&#x27;re on a diet after looking fat in a picture from their yacht.