Mat Nuclear

What do you make, I've noticed this too, a little bit on the right but much more on the left,

Elon Musk, who is one of the most productive individuals of any of our lifetimes, if not the most productive, he becomes the world's first trillionaire as he's creating all these really great products, preserves the American public square on Twitter, and everyone hates him for it.

Do you see a lot of that kind of class envy, resentment?

Obviously now the young left especially is willing to take on the moniker of socialism.

Are we just careening toward communism forever?

That's obviously true, and I think that socialism and communism in all its forms is just evil and satanic.

But there is an interesting kind of critique that comes out of wealth inequality.

One is that the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy.

But then the other one is that we have a right to private property, but nevertheless, this comes from Catholic social teaching, that there is a universal destination of goods.

In other words, we have real rights to private property, but we also have obligations to each other in society.

And so people are trying to pretend like, you know, Elon is doing backflips in his pile of gold.

But what occurs to me from that critique is Elon actually is living up to those responsibilities.

He puts aside his companies for a second to go help the government become more efficient.

He puts $44 billion to put his money where our mouth is to go preserve the public square because conservatives were being discriminated against.

So in a way, I think he's like the worst example of a guy who's not civic minded or irresponsible or something.

I agree with a lot of that point.

Obviously, the main social good that Elon has done is to create these great innovations and this great wealth.

But he feels a responsibility toward others.

And I think, Ben, your example actually kind of makes my point, especially when it comes to free speech, which is that

we don't live for free speech.