@Heal_within96 He doesn't even know how his ancestor Emiliano Zapata fought the Spaniards that are still controlling his country and ironically they call themselves Hispanics! In the eyes of the Spaniards they are all subhumans indigenous
@Heal_within96 An indigenous Mexican! They are the majority in Mexico but the Spaniards are controlling every aspect of that country. I wonder if they are still cannibals.
The most predictable replies under this post are people saying “but those were contracts” as if that somehow kills the argument.
It does not buddy.
The point is not that every government contract is corruption, or that NASA should never buy launches, or that public procurement should not exist.
The point is that the mythology around Elon Musk is sold to the public as if one man simply outsmarted the world through pure private genius, while the actual empire was built on public contracts, state incentives, federal demand, tax credits, infrastructure, regulatory support and government created markets.
SpaceX did not become SpaceX in some untouched free market vacuum. Tesla did not scale inside a world where the state was irrelevant. Starlink does not exist outside defense, foreign policy, spectrum rules, emergency programs and public sector demand.
The entire Musk ecosystem has been deeply entangled with the state for decades.
And that is exactly why the hypocrisy matters;
The same people who scream about “government waste” are very often the first in line when the money flows upward.
They hate the state when it funds schools, healthcare, public transport, social security or ordinary workers, but somehow the state becomes visionary, strategic and necessary when it sends billions to corporations, defense contractors, energy companies, launch providers and billionaire controlled infrastructure.
= public risk converted into private power.
The taxpayer helped build the launchpad, absorbed the risk, created the demand, funded the infrastructure and legitimized the empire.
Then the billionaire gets to stand on top of it and tell everyone else that the state is the problem.
That is the part people should understand.
Not every dollar on that list is scandalous by itself.
The scandal is the pattern, the ideology and the selective hatred of government only when government helps ordinary people instead of billionaires.
And these are exactly the millionaires and billionaires, many of whom may have committed real crimes, who became rich through public money, public infrastructure, public contracts and public protection.
Now they gather around Trump and other autocrats to tell you the state is evil and social safety nets for ordinary people are too expensive.
Of course they do.
They do not depend on healthcare, pensions, unemployment support, housing security or public services.
They profit from access, loopholes, subsidies, deregulation and political capture.
For them, the state is only bad when it protects the many.
When it protects the powerful, it becomes their business model.