extreme inequality is very bad for a democracy, but combined with basically no limits on political spending it is just untenable www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Musk wants government subsidies to he can use our national currency to buy our government

One thing I will never understand, is that, greed in such breathtaking scale, will ultimately break down society—which the uber wealthy NEEDS. Your zillions won't mean much in dystopia. The system props them up, as much or more, than the masses.

His net worth exceeds that of many sovereign governments. And (with a little help from Citizens United) his money wields inordinate power, rivaling that of our own government and many millions of voters. It is, as FDR put it, the very definition of fascism.