Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump

He may well make money on it, but I'm not sure that's really his goal.

I don't much like Musk, but I'll give him this: he seems to want money because of what money does, not just to pile up bigger and bigger numbers in an account book somewhere. He bought Twitter to do social engineering, and he's getting what he paid for. He bought himself a place in government so that he could stick it to the people he dislikes, and get government out of the way of his Mars plans.

He wants to be remembered as the Christopher Columbus of Mars, not as a guy with a really big bank account. He wants admiration, and he's getting it. (And he's getting notoriety, but like my cats, he thinks any attention is good attention.)

I don't particularly like the way he's going about it, but I understand that a lot better than the ones who just seem to want money for its own sake.

By most measures it seems Elon has made ~$70 billion dollars since Trump won the election, and he stands to make that look like a pittance once his cronies have taken over at NASA, the Department of Energy, and half a dozen other agencies that have slowed down his efforts with regulations and oversight.

27,900% growth in a single month and you come out the other side set up to loot the American government for at least the next four years? That’s a great investment deal by all standards.

Source:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/glob...

I like him a lot, so there's that.