🧵On the Broligarchs' Hostile Takeover of the US Government
And why this is the logical endpoint of 40+ years of marinating American minds in the anti-democratic dogma of "everything should be run like a business."
We're citizens, not customers; firms exist to produce profits, not public goods.1/x
And why this is the logical endpoint of 40+ years of marinating American minds in the anti-democratic dogma of "everything should be run like a business."
We're citizens, not customers; firms exist to produce profits, not public goods.1/x
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Thus the Trump electorate smile and cheer as they cult walk into autocracy
Well Elon Musk & other broligarchs have flipped that around: as they see it, they bought the US government (Musk alone spent ~quarter billion $), so now they get to break it. It's theirs.
That the things are public goods and democratic institutions built by and for the American people appears to be of no consequence to them...or to the shrinking number of people who might be in a position to stop them.
We the People made them rich by providing them with taxpayer-funded support, such as:
https://new.nsf.gov/news/origins-google
When Tim Berners-Lee created the idea for the World Wide Web, he declined to patent it & privatize the gains bc his idea was built on public goods: taxpayer investment in the US & Europe. From his book:
Perhaps none more so than Elon Musk himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/investing/elon-musk-wealth-taxpayer-support/index.html