What does Elon Musk want?

[Cyrano]

He's the richest man on the planet. And he may very well become the world's first trillionaire. At some point, money is no longer the issue.

Does he want fame? He's already got it due t to Tesla, Space X, and his red Tesla Roadster making it's second trip around the sun. That seems to be sufficient to get him into the history books.

Does he want to be universally loved? That may be one of Trump's fantasies, but Musk knows it's ridiculous and impossible.

Does he want to be universally feared? That too many be a Trump fantasy. but why would Musk want that?

Does he want political power? All billionaires "own" politicians and have political power. Why would he want to paint a target on his back by becoming an active/practicing politician?

Is he as mentally deranged as Trump? Doesn't seem so. It's difficult to keep that degree of bugshit crazy hidden.

So again I ask, what does Elon Musk want from his current activities and relationship with Trump?

Any guesses?

[LeftInTX]

1. Remember in the 80's, Trump used to be on all the covers of the tabloids? That's the only thing I can think of.

[CentralMass]

2. Adoration.

[Midnight Writer]

3. He wants to be God, and he wants all of us to worship him and offer sacrifices to him.

[StarryNite]

9. And to fear his power.

He loves to threaten people so he must love to scare people into submission. He's truly sick.

[elleng]

4. I doubt he knows.

[lame54]

5. More

[Cyrano]

15. Yep. The "More" scene from the movie Key Largo.

[keep_left]

29. Historian/writer Morris Berman has a lot to say about that scene...

...from Key Largo and how it is a subtle but effective critique of the dominant American culture: "more" as an ideology. Oliver Stone made the same point in Scarface, this time in Day-Glo, but a cruel irony occurred when some in the counterculture--the hip-hop culture in particular--began to see the Tony Montana character as a hero worthy of emulation.

Some of Morris Berman's works get an occasional mention at DU. I highly recommend his "America Trilogy", beginning with Twilight of American Culture (1999). Two other books apropos to the times are Erich Fromm's Escape From Freedom (1941) and Eric Hoffer's The True Believer (1951).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219742027#post8
https://democraticunderground.com/100219662986#post58

[LuvLoogie]

6. He want's to be cool and hip.

And can't be that organically. So he must punish the world for not fawning over how great he is.

[ms liberty]

18. Yes. He wants everyone to see him as the kewlest, smartest, hippest dude in the multiverse.

He works so hard at it that he telegraphs his Inner insecurities.

[republianmushroom]

7. Power and control, to become the most powerful man in the world.

[Ocelot II]

8. All of it. He's a megalomaniac, just exactly like Trump.

Just like Trump, he wants the most money, the most influence, the most adoration, the most power. They are two peas in a pod, and there's room in the pod for only one of them. They are matter and antimatter, and it's all bound to blow up before long.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. He's just a chicken dancing on a hotplate for the ignorant masses.

Nothing to see here.

[Walleye]

11. He thinks he's gonna take over the world. Megalomania.

[J_William_Ryan]

12. "What does Elon Musk want?"

As correctly noted elsewhere – he wants to return America to the Gilded Age of robber barons and the judicial paradigm of the Lochner era where laws protecting the health, lives, and rights of working Americans are un-Constitutional, resulting in reckless, irresponsible deregulation.

[Maeve]

13. Everything

Power, fame, adulation...

One thing he will never have...enough

[haele]

14. He wants...he probably doesn't really know...

To do whatever he wants for fun without regulation.
To be loved and respected (his mom is a self-centered piece of work in public, and apparently his dad is, too, so I can be pretty sure he was ignored or encouraged to be a right selfish, competitive bastard growing up).

He doesn't seem to think much past his immediate interests. Not an introspective person, clever rather than wise. Nor is he very emotionally smart, despite some pretty enthusiastic marketing skills.

The only difference between him and a typical somewhat skilled collage-aged Nerd is that he now has Billions to indulge his whims and poutrage and - it's gone to his head.

I'd feel a smidge of pity for him if he wasn't so dangerous - it's like giving a 13-year old unlimited money with full adult rights and responsibilities -without any supervision or restraints.

Haele

[Cyrano]

17. I agree with your headline. "... he probably doesn't know."

It's virtually impossible for any of us to imagine the global perspective of the richest man in the world.

Maybe he's just having "a bit of fun" screwing around with the minds of the 18 billion people that inhabit the planet. Which is really sick. I don't know whether or not this makes him insane, but it sure as hell makes him a clueless prick.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. He wants to take over the World.

Sort of like a Bond villain.

[JI7]

19. "At some point, money is no longer the issue."

Money is always an issue for people like him.

Maybe it has to do with the fact they did not earn the money honestly and think anything they don't get can be taken by others.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. Sheer egoboo, and anything that leads to it.

He may very well test the tax break for billionaires to destruction in the process.

[allegorical oracle]

21. To be the most powerful person on Earth. I can see him running for POTUS in 2028. nt

[jmowreader]

22. He can't

Someone born in South Africa doesn’t meet the natural-born citizen requirement, and he isn’t old enough to meet the “citizen of the United States at the time of adoption of this Constitution” clause that got George Washington in.

[bdamomma]

23. Maybe he wants to

destroy the US??? and wants to screw the American people. Also seems he's been communicating with Putin both of them want to see the US neutered. He's South African, Apartheid to the core.

And addicted to Ketamine and money. American people are going to be in a world of hurt

[JCMach1]

24. Abnormal beliefs are part of the ketamine experience

As far as we no he also still uses cannabis as well.

For ketamine it included delusions of control, reference and misinterpretation.

We know about cannabis paranoia.


Ego,. money + drugs is not a good mix
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3838932/

[flamingdem]

25. Does anyone know what Ketamien

does to the brain?

He's an addict they say.

[JCMach1]

31. I posted a study that was done in my post above

I summarized.what I though the effects might be for Elon.

[WarGamer]

26. Money already isn't the issue for him.

He doesn't own a yacht, doesn't live in a mansion.

His private jet is owned by SpaceX.

He lives on a LOT less money annually than Bezos or Zuck... who both have enormous yachts and Zuck owns half an island...

He really thinks he can change humanity. That's his "hard on"

[Initech]

28. The bad thing is, he's changing for all the wrong reasons.

And using his money for evil and not good. Fuck MAGA, fuck AfD.

[Johonny]

27. Attention

He is no different than Trump. The world must dance to his music.

[blueseas]

30. What he wants from Trump

What he paid for.

He paid to have the whole of the US at his beck and call. And to take all of the money he can get

[MartyTheGreek]

32. He wants that UAP tech! Chemical rockets are so yesterday!

Grabbing reusable chemical rockets is cool, but the UAP tech is the prize!

He already got the deadly Cyber Truck fiery crash reporting regulations cut.

It's said that the TR-3B is reverse engineered antigravity tech perfected to 89% and as far as we got. Even Trump said "some interesting things happened at Roswell."

Why did Trump create Space Force? AF Generals at first laughed at the idea! Don't you think AF already owned Space? Now he can assign his loyalists and find out or try to and exploit it for the oligarchs and not The People!

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-investigated-violating-terms-top-secret-clearance

[Trueblue Texan]

33. I'm really hoping...

that it will turn out that all these space ventures will be the means by which the Rapture takes place! Take them, Lord! Take them! The sooner, the better!

[Marthe48]

34. What the alien in Independence Day wants

This clip:

[TheProle]

35. He wants to put people on Mars

And will work every political, cultural and financial lever he can in that pursuit.

[Cyrano]

36. He also intends to charge them rent