What we're seeing is live, updated tech bro version of Atlas Shrugged.
With Donald Trump as the helpless but "beautifully noble" Dagny Taggart and Elon Musk as the enigmatic pseudo engineer/master of disguises John Galt. I guess Vladimir Putin is the foreign Valentine what's his name.
The few wise and wealthy "self-made" elites who tear down the corrupt regulatory society and it's safety nets with the help of their loyal "enlightened" helpers, the Christan Evangelicals, and they all live happily ever after once the remaining "takers" and strong backed slackers (who have been culled through social eugenics) learn their proper places in society, out of sight and sound of the proper folk.
So they believe.
On edit - the primary fault I find with the Atlas Shrugged version of insanity (other than the entire insanity of the premise) is that all these supposedly great industrialists came up with the ideas for their great single invention or technology on their own, (or like Valentine what's his name, bullied a lot of people off their land and exploited locals to mine copper)springing from their minds like Athena from Zeus, instead of how inventions actually came about, which was from careful study of previous scientists and inventors, outright patent theft, and/or the hard work and inspiration of nameless engineers, scientists, technicians, and laborers looking for time and stress savers, or fiddling around on their own time to come up with something that the industrialist snags up and calls his own.
Gack, even re-reading the synopsis of that garbage was painful.
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I have been searching for that cartoon for two weeks!
