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Originally posted by sharps2r800: ↑

Time’s person of the year Elon Musk: Worshipping the pandemic profiteer

“Since the finance aristocracy made the laws, was at the head of the administration of the state, had command of all the organized public authorities, dominated public opinion through the actual state of affairs and through the press, the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from the court to the Café Borgne to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others, Clashing every moment with the bourgeois laws themselves, an unbridled assertion of unhealthy and dissolute appetites manifested itself, particularly at the top of bourgeois society—lusts wherein wealth derived from gambling naturally seeks its satisfaction, where pleasure becomes crapuleux [debauched], where money, filth, and blood commingle. The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society.”—Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France

Timemagazine, expressing the spirit of the rich and complacent, utterly indifferent to human suffering, has declared Elon Musk their 2021 person of the year.

Musk is the epitome of the most loathsome creatures on planet Earth: the pandemic profiteers, those who have seen their wealth skyrocket while millions of human beings lost their lives, because capitalist governments all over the world refused to carry out elementary public health measures in order to fuel the rise of the financial markets.

One of the many problems withTime’s narrative is that Musk’s fortune has almost nothing to do with production.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/16/musk-d16.html

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Tesla employs 70,000+ people (20,000 more than in 2019)
Musk will pay tax of $11-15 billion (!) on share sales.
Musk has donated $150 million on charitable works (https://www.vox.com/recode/22394867/elon-musk-foundation-philanthropy-xprize-tesla-spacex)

"Loathsome"? I don't think so. "Loathsome" are the socialists who don't understand that the wealth made by industrialists like Musk benefits so many others.

"utterly indifferent to human suffering"?...I don't think so.
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