I don’t understand the power of trump over this guy. Isn’t he richer than trump? Didn’t trump posted a derogatory tweet about him saying something like “he’ll kneel if I’ve asked”
Trump is just a tool like himself, but trump is a favorite of much richer than him putin.
BTW, Elon publicly showed off behavior when there were those boys caught up in the cave, but he really did a massive switch right in the middle of 2020 where Tesla stock got an unexplained price spike. It feels like foreign governments put some money there. I'm wondering if the bonus he got recently was getting that money out.
If Trump cancels EV subsidies or pressures NASA to stop bankrolling SpaceX, Musk is basically fucked.
That is why Trump said that.
As with most giant corporations, if the government stopped heavily subsidizing them in many direct and many more indirect ways, they would basically collapse under their own incompetence quite quickly.
Its truly funny to watch libertarian types pretend they built their empires from the ground up, when the truth is that they basically always started from a very privileged background, more or less did shady things bordering on or actually being fraud, got some of their parent's or parent's friends to invest, and then grew further from massive government aid of one kind or another.
The family were rich: a punt on an emerald mine by Errol Musk, an engineer, had delivered a fortune. But he and Maye, a model from Canada, left raising Elon and his younger siblings, Tosca and Kimbal, to black servants.