Status Updates From Muskism: A Guide for the Pe...

The first lesson was “Empathy is not an asset.” The second was “Play life like a game”.

The more limbic resonance, the more engagement. You can’t talk people out of a good panic. They sure love it.

In this system of griftonomics, hypercapitalism, rentier capitalism, increasingly people are doing nothing but making money off doing nothing. As for Musk, Palmer added, he was and always will be a grifter but the world loves grifters. They love the idea that they may also be a billionaire one day, and that’s the dream he’s selling.

When a single individual owns the infrastructure, he doesn’t need to run a government to shape geopolitics.

The goal was not to eliminate the government but to vassalize it, such that it can only exercise its authority by purchasing services from a monopoly provider.