When you can buy yourself a government for a tiny fraction of your wealth, you have no conflicts of interest. You are the only interested party.
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What’s worse, is he made it back and then some. His net worth increased by $104B within 30 days of the election.
Isn't Elon made of flesh and blood, and also a CEO?
He's proof that being a CEO doesn't actually require any amount of work
Truly anyone who frames this as a hard problem to solve must be self-limiting.
No, you don't understand, he is now parading his youngest kid everywhere (while neglecting all his other children), so he's totally relatable and also totally not using a human being as a prop!
Gotta love an oligarchy…
Conflicts of interest are not something that matter anymore. I think they should matter, but American voters have decided that they don't. Not much point in discussing it.
Getting sick of this defeatist attitude on Lemmy.
There is absolutely still a point in discussing. For fucks sake.
Edit: sorry to single homie out, it's not them, it's an air on the platform. Just hijacking this comment for visibility. Sorry Holmes.
What, pray tell, is the point of discussing it here?
Finding the right words to get apathetic people to care
Yeah this assumes some sort of constitutional rule of law universally applied and social contract, neither exist anymore when anyone is above the law
Only six?
Now do Trump.
Only six?
Why not just do a top ten list?
Vivian could get close enough to poison him.
i’m sure that with a few more warnings from experts that all these problems will go away