alt Hacker NewsElon Musk explicitly said in his latest Joe Rogan appearance that he advocates for the smallest government possible - just army, police, legal. He did NOT mention social care, health care.
Doesn't quite align with UBI, unless he envisions the AI companies directly giving the UBI to people (when did that ever happen?)
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Of course he only wants the government to do only what benefits him.
I'm sure that "smallest government possible" involves cancelling all subsidies to EV car companies and tax credits to EV customers. What a wanker.
Like every other self-serving rich “Libertarian,” they want a small government when it stands to get in their way, and a large one when they want their lifestyle subsidized by government contracts.
> Elon Musk explicitly said in his latest Joe Rogan appearance that he advocates for the smallest government possible - just army, police, legal. He did NOT mention social care, health care.
This would be a 19th century government, just the "regalian" functions. It's not really plausible in a world where most of the population who benefit from the health/social care/education functions can vote.
It's possible that the interests of the richest man in the world don't align with the interests of the majority, or society as a whole.