[ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 04:51:31 UTC 2022


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2022, at 8:25 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Ja.  But there are more than two sides.  Musk is African American and a
> libertarian (oh what a fine example of a libertarian is he, the modern John
> Galt.)
>
> Recall how in Rand’s novel John Galt got all those government contracts?
> Remember how Galt was the scion of a wealthy family? You don’t recall those
> things? Well, that’s because Galt wasn’t born into wealth and didn’t step
> his way up the financial ladder via dipping into the tax fund. (Yeah, Galt
> is a fictional character, but his fictional biography is of someone born
> into a lower middle class family, leaving home at 12, and working his way
> up from there.)
>
> This isn’t to belittle Musk’s achievements in the area of space
> technology, cars, and batteries. Hes shaken up those industries. But he’s
> hardly a John Galt.
>
>
### Is Musk a "scion of a wealthy family"? Did he step his way up the
financial ladder via dipping into the tax fund?

Rafal
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