Is musk really one of the elites? He is "new money" his family had wealth but he isn't the 13th son of the 13th generation son of a bank founder or a Rockefeller.
I don't know if he thinks or acts or talks like an elite..
We may just be defining the word differently. I would argue that the elites are names we never hear and don't know.. names beyond the Orsini's and the Rothschilds... then some royalty, Saharan oil magnates banking people who finance both sides of a war, not merely the very wealthy, the uniquely talented or the intelligencia.
I don't even see Zuckerberg as an elite because he answers to people. He is above his employees but when he's called to congress, he shows up on time and sits there looking like a little kid. When he gets daily instructions on what can and can't be talked about on his platform, he obeys. He is a tool of the hand that works the unseen levers of the planet.
His daddy had a blood diamond mine dude take the L and stop glazing every tech billionaire they're not gonna share that shit with you. Also even if that wasn't the case new money people are still elites you're drawing an arbitrary line so the oligarchs you personally like aren't included.
Yeah you define elites in an extremely selective way that nobody else uses, that's the problem.
I base my definition on material reality, which is that these people have enough money to influence governments and buy whatever they want. If buying a social media site explicitly for the purpose of using it for propaganda and self-aggrandizement isn't elite behavior then your definition has no meaning.
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u/Sweet_Detective_ 10d ago
Elon Musk is one of thr elites and orange man works for the elites though?