As a writer with an interest in observing the lurid symptoms of terminal-stage capitalism, I feel strangely grateful for the omnipresence of Elon Musk in our culture. It seems to me that we can learn a lot about our world and its various afflictions by simply observing its richest living person. Look at this man, who has more money than anyone else on the planet, and who is therefore, by the crudest of material metrics, the most successful person alive. What sort of case does he present for […]
Elon Musk makes being a billionaire plutocrat look profoundly uncool – The Irish Times