Mia Wong

Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about things falling apart and how to put them back together again. I am your host, Mia Wong. With me is James Stout. Hi, Mia. Happy to be here again. Yeah, I am... I don't know. I have mixed emotions about this one.

So today we are talking about how the American state, particularly the sort of neoliberal American state of the last about 50 years, created Elon Musk and how... it is destroying itself. And we'll start with the fun part of this, which is that Tesla stock is down 25% in the last month.

So today we are talking about how the American state, particularly the sort of neoliberal American state of the last about 50 years, created Elon Musk and how... it is destroying itself. And we'll start with the fun part of this, which is that Tesla stock is down 25% in the last month.

So today we are talking about how the American state, particularly the sort of neoliberal American state of the last about 50 years, created Elon Musk and how... it is destroying itself. And we'll start with the fun part of this, which is that Tesla stock is down 25% in the last month.

It's extremely funny. The protests are working. People are like lighting them on cars on fire, literally all over the world. Like there was just a big rash in France the day we're recording this. The pressure is working. He's having a bad time. 25% is just the start. We can get the other 75%. Yeah.

It's extremely funny. The protests are working. People are like lighting them on cars on fire, literally all over the world. Like there was just a big rash in France the day we're recording this. The pressure is working. He's having a bad time. 25% is just the start. We can get the other 75%. Yeah.

It's extremely funny. The protests are working. People are like lighting them on cars on fire, literally all over the world. Like there was just a big rash in France the day we're recording this. The pressure is working. He's having a bad time. 25% is just the start. We can get the other 75%. Yeah.

Yep. It's great. It's great.

Yep. It's great. It's great.

Yep. It's great. It's great.

It's the one line we like to see. However, so we've talked a lot on this show about the things that Elon Musk is doing to the American state and about all of the people who he is harming and the lives he's destroying and the people who are dead because of his actions. Yeah.

It's the one line we like to see. However, so we've talked a lot on this show about the things that Elon Musk is doing to the American state and about all of the people who he is harming and the lives he's destroying and the people who are dead because of his actions. Yeah.

It's the one line we like to see. However, so we've talked a lot on this show about the things that Elon Musk is doing to the American state and about all of the people who he is harming and the lives he's destroying and the people who are dead because of his actions. Yeah.

And I think it's worth actually getting into how he was produced and how it came to be that at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto, Marx famously wrote that the bourgeoisie produced their own gravediggers. And, you know, his his his promised like inevitable victory of the proletariat has thus far failed to materialize.

And I think it's worth actually getting into how he was produced and how it came to be that at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto, Marx famously wrote that the bourgeoisie produced their own gravediggers. And, you know, his his his promised like inevitable victory of the proletariat has thus far failed to materialize.

And I think it's worth actually getting into how he was produced and how it came to be that at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto, Marx famously wrote that the bourgeoisie produced their own gravediggers. And, you know, his his his promised like inevitable victory of the proletariat has thus far failed to materialize.

But neoliberalism and like this specific state seems to have produced their own gravediggers, partially in the form of Trump, but partially in the form of Elon Musk. And it's worth actually going into the story of how specifically this happens.

But neoliberalism and like this specific state seems to have produced their own gravediggers, partially in the form of Trump, but partially in the form of Elon Musk. And it's worth actually going into the story of how specifically this happens.

But neoliberalism and like this specific state seems to have produced their own gravediggers, partially in the form of Trump, but partially in the form of Elon Musk. And it's worth actually going into the story of how specifically this happens.

And also, I think what neoliberalism is, because this is an important aspect of I think people are kind of aware of the broad outlines of the story of the extent to which, you know, Tesla and SpaceX were built by American subsidies. But it's worth going into some of the some of the more structural elements of how this happened and why.