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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024

Every single word of this write up is the truth and this entire article deserves to be read.

$But the bigger picture is sadder, and darkly funny. To me, the story of Twitter, X, and Elon Musk is the tragedy and the comedy of our world writ small, a tale of greed, corruption, and, ultimately, the hollow promise of unfettered capitalism. Our economic system exists to produce an Elon Musk, an absolute and utter individual of unfathomable wealth and resources, one man who is free, free in every sense: to do whatever he wants, to buy whatever he wants, to all but declare himself co-president of a global superpower, and it seems no one can stop him. How much sweat, how much misery, how many untold hours of toil were required of everyone else on earth to situate him there? That's the point of all this, isn't it? To place an extraordinarily slim fraction of a fraction of human beings at the top, and precisely one at the tippy top? That's the part that makes me laugh. Everything it costs to build and sustain such a system, and there, at its pinnacle, is Elon Musk. A vacuum. An unhappy, needy, empty man, numbing himself to push through his days like so many of the rest of us poor saps below, no better, no smarter, but undeniably freer, up there, at the top of the pyramid, where he's begging on all fours for us to like him.$

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