Whenever billionaires are given political power, they are highly unlikely to favor tax, trade, and labor policies that further enrich people like them — they are equally unlikely to steer taxpayer-footed junkets, major events, and contracts toward their own businesses and properties. This was never observed under Donald Trump, for instance, who served as a scrupulous steward of the public interest for four years — disclosing not only his personal and business tax returns dating back three decades but also all actual and potential financial conflicts of interest.
Elon Musk is currently disqualified from becoming President of the United States as he was born in South Africa — unfair Constitutional rules can be amended, of course.
If Elon Musk were to one day become President, I’m sure he would follow in the same Trumpian tradition of absolute disclosure and probity. For example, I’m confident that Musk would double funding to NASA so that it serves as a healthy competitor to SpaceX, and so that friendly competition between the two space agencies produces a technological renaissance in America.
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