Why have these two oligarchs been willing to take actions that cause so many of their customers to jump ship? What’s the connection between Bezos’s preventing the Post from endorsing Harris and Musk’s weaponizing X for Trump?
Stop giving sociopathic billionaire scum the benefit of the doubt; they don’t deserve it.
Musk and Bezos support Trump because they like fascism. Regardless of what ancillary reasons they also might have, that one is the most essential and the most damning.
Also curb stomping the recent resurgence of labor organizing. You have to get the govt money from one end and cut costs at the other.
their customers to jump ship?
To where?
This is the calculus.
It’s neither as simple as the article states nor what I see in the comments here.
It’s not just about staying on Trump’s good size to avoid his wrath, getting lucrative government contracts, or getting personal tax breaks. It’s also about stopping or rolling back regulations that would hurt profits.
Keeping the minimum wage down. Eroding worker’s rights, allowing the union busting tactics that Amazon is famous for. Removing consumer protections. Allowing mergers and acquisitions without all those pesky antitrust lawsuits. Rolling back environmentally regulations, staying on fossil fuels. Foreign policy that allows these companies to exploit cheap global labor and sell to the wealthy. Heck, Musk at least seems rather cozy with Putin- i would not be surprised to see these billionaires try to roll back Russian sanctions.
Tax cuts.
