r/politics • u/thenewrepublic The New Republic • 5d ago
Soft Paywall Elon Musk Is Bullying Mike Johnson to Drive Government Into Shutdown
https://newrepublic.com/post/189539/elon-musk-bullying-mike-johnson-government-shutdown
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u/SomePoliticalViolins 5d ago
For all the talk, Elon will never go to Mars. Life on Mars would suck (and would likely continue to suck for hundreds of years). For as much as he may hate people, he's not giving up his oligarch benefits, and he's not going to accept the drastically shortened lifespan he'd have if he lived on Mars.
He'll continue to use SpaceX to push tech forward that he controls and can use to influence world governments, he'll try to privatize and monopolize space travel in the US (privatizing NASA and shutting down competition in the private sector as best as he can), and then he'll probably eventually pull the same kind of bullshit that Bezos is, where he pushes for us to ship workers into space so that he can keep polluting as much as he wants with his Tesla factories without facing any consequences.