What did you do in the days before your life’s biggest triumph? Perhaps it was getting married, selling a business, landing a long-wanted job, or watching years of effort come together into the thing you had always hoped it might become.
Perhaps you went out for a nice meal, or sat nervously thrumming your fingers on the table, too nervous with excitement to think about anything else.
Elon Musk is about to shepherd his newly-merged conglomerate, SpaceX, on to the stock market in the biggest IPO in history. It is set to make his net worth even more engorged.
And yet, he spent a good chunk of yesterday agreeing with some of his most unpalatably slavish followers on his own personal mouthpiece, X, that we should “deport the invaders” and “imprison the government”. He also spent part of his time stoking the worsening of race relations in the UK and Italy.
It’s why Musk – despite his recognisable excellence at running a business and building new industries – will always go down in history with a massive caveat. The Rockefeller of the 21st century should be known to history and praised for his enormous contributions to human progress: electric cars, reusable rockets, satellite internet and a willingness to force sclerotic industries to move faster than they ever wanted to.
But Musk can’t leave it there. He has to be adored and obeyed. He has to retreat into the ugliest parts of the internet, egging on the people who see cruelty as courage and division as truth-telling.
That’s what makes Musk a tragic loser, despite his successes. The resources at his disposal should make him one of history’s great builders. Instead, he behaves like a man permanently trapped in the reply section of the worst corners of the internet. He has the money to reshape the future, and the emotional discipline of someone arguing in the comments section of a local newspaper’s Facebook post.
It’s that proclivity that makes Musk – who in theory should be the coolest man on earth, for all that he does – tragically embarrassing. But it’s also dangerous. Musk owns one of the world’s most politically influential communications platforms. He controls companies deeply embedded in transport, defence, communications and space infrastructure.
When a man with that much power amplifies the language of invasion, imprisonment and racialised grievance, it’s more than mere shitposting. What he says matters. It seeps into the political discourse, and gives permission for others to follow. It hardens people’s opinions towards hatred.
Musk will almost certainly become the world’s first trillionaire in a matter of hours. He may put humans on Mars in a matter of years – he’s said, then done, crazier things before. He certainly deserves a chapter in every history of technology written this century.
But the footnote will always be there: that at the moment he could have chosen magnanimity, silence, or a quiet moment of self-reflection on how much he has brought the world, he chose to spend his victory eve turning to hate and tearing at the fabric of the societies that made him rich.
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