Elon Musk
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Well, the government is the DMV at scale.
So you have to say like, do you want the DMV running your supermarket?
Was your last experience at the DMV amazing?
And if it wasn't, you probably don't want the government doing things.
It's not going to be good.
I mean, the thing about communism is it was all bread lines and bad shoes.
Do you want ugly shoes and bread lines?
Because that's what communism gets you.
We live in the most interesting of times because we face the, you know, simultaneously face civilizational decline and incredible prosperity.
And these timelines are interwoven.
Um, so, um, if Mamdani's policies are put into place, especially at scale, um, it, it would be a catastrophic, uh, decline in living standards, not just for the rich, but for everyone.
Um, uh, as, as has been the case with, with every, um, every four, every, every socialist experiment, um, or every, yeah.
But then, as you pointed out, the irony is that the ultimate capitalist thing of AI and robotics enabling prosperity for all and abundance of goods and services, actually the capitalist implementation of AI and robotics, assuming it goes down the good path, is actually what results in the communist utopia.
Because fate is an irony maximizer.