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Not sure it's an indictment of capitalism as much as it's an indictment of authoritarianism.


Absolutely. Capitalism in fact does not incentivizes destroying companies. Actually, the new broken American capitalism does - squeeze a company for revenue to juice share prices and walk away from the ruins, but that is different.

Musk’s behavior has strong authoritarian tendencies. He is a caricature version of a spoiled king. Roll it back a few hundred years and a guy like that would be ordering to chop some heads if his chicken got overcooked.




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