Summary
The White House confirmed that Elon Musk is working as a “special government employee” under Trump, granting him significant authority to cut federal spending.
Musk has a government email, office space, and access to sensitive Treasury systems. His team abruptly shut down USAID headquarters on Monday.
Musk is consolidating unchecked power, raising legal and ethical concerns, particularly given his federal contracts.
Musk is unpaid and may not be required to disclose financial interests.
You’re naive. Where do you think the authority to negotiate comes from? It’s violence. The threat of force.
When you don’t have that. You get the US. Where tens of millions protesting nation wide is flatly ignored if not actively stomped out by the government like so often happens here by police forces.
This is a cultural difference. American culture is steeped in violence, you venerate it in almost all of your stories.
Violence is like fire, properly harnessed, it is a tool for progress. Otherwise it is wildfire and destroys everything around it.
If those same millions of people who can organize to protest, had instead just decided to strike. I would predict that more would happen, but that requires a collectivist culture, America has been pushing itself along the individualistic line for so long, I’m not sure you have it in you to work together enough.