Eating Our Rich

Worked in 1930s U.S. AND 1940s/1950s Japan.

Thursday’s blowout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, this deadly MAGA schism between populist and oligarch, is perhaps going to be the rupture that leads to the end of our second Gilded Age.

I am at most glancing at the news, but it seems that part of Musk’s departure is that anti-immigrant extremist Stephen Miller’s wife has made off, both professionally, and personally, with Elon Musk. We already know that Musk is here illegally and given the venom flowing between he and Trump … which rose to the level of Musk calling Trump on his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein? Musk being sent packing would be hilarious.

As I reiterated recently in End Of Life, I’m done. None of what mattered to me policy wise is getting done. I am busy working on Shall We Play A Game? and trying to enrich myself by destroying white collar jobs using AI. Even if Trump and Musk are out on the South Lawn with dueling pistols in hand tomorrow at high noon, I’m still uninterested.

But you kids … if you expect your children to have a future, putting an end to bad decisions that benefit a tiny handful of people like Musk … that’s a requirement. So now would be a good time for you to pay attention.

That plan worked for us with the New Deal and it worked for post-war Japan. There will be a lot of histrionics of course, but it’ll work just as well now as it did a century ago.