So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Did anyone expect anything less than complete outrage when the echo chamber of the left saw the hammer blows breaking through their walls and opening them up to reality? They still deny that Twitter was a one-sided platform. In fairness, boards is not too dis-similar these days and it's a worse place for it.

Cheers. I saw an article about it. Funny stuff.

Oh, and "agenda driven" isn't the own you think it is. Every person on the planet has an agenda. For most, it's simply to be able to live comfortably and provide adequately for their families while leading lives that cause as few problems to others as possible.

For Musk and his ilk, it's to hoard as much wealth as possible, regardless of the consequences to their fellow man.

Is this spite driven, or driven by what you earlier claimed, a desire to help those who are suffering? Which according to you is because of billionaires. It's always hard to tell with the language Marxists use. The supposedly compassionate theory, relies on the belief that governments use money well and they just need some more of it to save us all. Any of us who weren't born yesterday know that governments have always and will always spend terribly. States getting millions, or even billions more from the likes of Musk won't change a thing, because most of the money will be blown on useless things that benefit few people, as they always have. It's a child like view of how thing can be fixed, if that is true motivation of course, which I'm skeptical of.

He can be annoying and strange and I say this as someone who is also autistic. I admire his ability to make so many changes which are a net positive to society and I genuinely think he wants to do good by people and make advances take us all forward. Compare this to the likes of Zuckerberg, or Bezos. Yeah, they've made their contributions, but they are only interested in advancing their own wallets and using their influence to do so and in Zuckerbergs case........US elections.....Brexit and much more. That guy should have been strapped to a Falcon 9 and shot off to the sun.

Spite? No. Frustration at socio-political systems that have under-educated sycophants defending the over-privileged in the misguided belief that they'll one day join their ranks, certainly.

I'm no marxist: effort and talent deserve to be rewarded and competition generally leads to efficiency. If we have to put a label on my politics I'm probably a Limitarian, Socialist or some form of meritocrat. I believe that capital growth and inheritance are vastly under-taxed when compared to earned income and that billionaires and the centralisation of wealth into an elite class is the predicable outcome of this.

While I don't disagree that public spending is often inefficient, I find your notion that money it's more likely to "be blown on useless things that benefit few people" by governments than (as in the example of this thread) billionaires like Elon Musk, to be the childlike view if I'm honest. We're literally discussing a man who has just, pretty much accidentally, bought a loss making company and over-paid for it to the tune of roughly 30 billion dollars.

Excellent article by John McGuirk on the attack on Musk. Can see the same manifesting on this thread.

I pay property tax on the value bracket my property is supposedly worth. I disagree with taxing ones PPR, but that's a whole other thread.

The stock market isn't just some virtual asset to hold investments. Most stocks are connected to real things and make it possible for many businesses (including those that make physical things) to grow and produce goods or services for us. Without the stock market, we would have higher prices on goods, because it would be more expensive for businesses to borrow, which would lead to less competition and higher consumer prices. This is obviously a more complex argument than is wise to break off into on this thread however.