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live love laugh

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Tue Dec 23, 2025, 04:35 AM Yesterday

Elon Musk the greediest man in the world

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Instagram maimaryamlove asked AI if we should stop calling Musk the richest man in the world and instead call him the greediest.

AI response:

“Richest” normalizes extreme wealth accumulation and masks the human rights violations that enable it. Calling Elon Musk the greediest instead of the richest man is more accurate if his wealth depends on systems that extract wealth from others while violating human rights.

Labor

Musk’s companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter ) rely on exploitive labor, unsafe factory and environmental conditions, union busting and wage suppression —including documented labor abuses at Tesla factories.


Public Subsidy Privatization

He’s extracted billions in public funding while privatizing the returns. That’s structural theft--taking collective resources for individual accumulation.


Ecological Extraction

His ventures rely on lithium mining and rare earth extraction operations that displace indigenous populations and destroy ecosystems.


Narrative Manipulation

His public persona is a tool of legitimacy. He frames himself as a visionary while weaponizing platforms to suppress dissent, amplify supremacist ideologies and destabilize public discourse.


It’s maximum extraction disguised as innovation. Calling Elon Musk greedy is more accurate than richest. Richest normalizes extreme wealth accumulation and masks the violations that enable it. Greediest reveals the structural function--extraction beyond sustainable or ethical limits dependent on suppressed labor, ecological harm and narrative control. If we keep calling violent extractors successful (rich) we legitimize the architecture that enables collapse. Precision requires naming what’s happening.

…Structural truth … requires analyzing the position he occupies and what sustains it. …Coherence demands we assess systems not individuals in isolation … structure reveals what the system rewards--extraction disguised as brilliance. Calling that greed isn’t an attack it's exposure.



I think this is brilliant and that Bezos, Zuck and other mega billionaires should also be called greediest.
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Elon Musk the greediest man in the world (Original Post) live love laugh Yesterday OP
De rec for AI slop Celerity Yesterday #1
Rec'd because I totally agree with it. raccoon Yesterday #2
Musk has made it very clear that he wants Botany Yesterday #3
This is brilliant! BoycottTwitter Yesterday #4
if "greed is good" elon is the goodest. rampartd Yesterday #5
Hoarder Godot51 Yesterday #6

Botany

(76,258 posts)
3. Musk has made it very clear that he wants
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 06:52 AM
Yesterday

.... Putin to win and occupy areas of the Ukraine that has rare earth minerals that he
and his enterprises need and to that end he* stole the 2024 election for Trump. He is a bad person.

* palantir, Eaton, Tiel, Starlink DTC, and ?

BoycottTwitter

(26 posts)
4. This is brilliant!
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 06:55 AM
Yesterday

I think it can work well especially depending on who you're talking to and how much of a vice they view greed to be.

I'll say no matter what if greed is like hunger we should stave Musk and boycott all his companies especially Twitter and Tesla.

Godot51

(707 posts)
6. Hoarder
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 07:15 AM
Yesterday

edolf mucks is a mere hoarder on an extremely large scale.

Some hoarders hoard piles of newspapers, others keep milk bottles filled with their own piss, and others have jars filled with a lifetime's finger and toe nail clippings.

mucks hoards electronic impulses of "money".

Someday he will be deleted along with all of his "money".

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