Headline of the Day

Elon Musk Doesn’t Give a Fuck About Poverty

—Gizmodo on Elon Musk claim that he is somehow creating a techno utopia.

First, a major raspberry to Gizmodo, because while the headline that you read on the web page says the above, the metadata, the thing that you would see in a bookmark of the page or a Google link, says, "Elon Musk Couldn't Care Less About Poverty."

Also, I do think that Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ DOES care about poverty.  He loves poverty, and insecurity, at least for other people.

If people do not lead desperate and precarious lives, then they would not feel compelled to work for an abusive sexual harasser boss like Elon Musk.

In a just world, the people that he abuses would leave him, and he would not be able to claim credit for their work.

Tesla held its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, and CEO Elon Musk seemed particularly focused on getting his $1 trillion payday. But before the world’s wealthiest man made the case for why he deserves to be the first trillionaire, he wanted to make sure you understand one thing: He’s going to help abolish poverty.

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The billionaire has long teased the idea that the future will be filled with so many robots and so much automation that nobody will have to work. It’s an idea that was incredibly popular in the 20th century, not just in science fiction but among serious academics. Back in the 1960s, it was just taken as a given that people of the year 2000 would only work maybe 20 hours per week. And beyond that, by the mid-21st century, no one would have to work at all.

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In reality, Musk does not give a fuck about poverty. To guys like Musk, people who are poor are just getting what they deserve. And all it takes is a quick search of his X account to see how often he says things to degrade homeless people.

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Musk believes that the U.S. is built on meritocracy, where people who have billions of dollars obviously deserve that money, and people who are poor deserve to stay poor. He demonstrated that time and again with DOGE, claiming that he was rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. The “fraud,” as he saw it, was people who were undeserving of the government benefits they received, whether it was food stamps or Social Security, a program he called a Ponzi scheme.

Yes, I know it's not, "Say fuck January," but I needed to discuss the whole metadata thing.