[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Wars were much cheaper when all you needed were men, horses and small arms.
So it stands to reason that wars will be as expensive as possible. It’s pay to win to a degree.
Certainly not. You could not print money out of nothing for a fairly long time.
Perhaps but IMHO it’s a very high risk strategy and I doubt it’s necessarily optimal if more wealth is his primary goal (as opposed to his other seemingly highly megalomaniacal ambitions..)
So far his actions haven’t really been that beneficial for Tesla (of course its sales growth might have significantly slowed down even if he stayed out of politics). SpaceX can only make that much even if it gets to appropriate the entire budget of NASA. Also at the end of the day his and Trump’s relationship might fall apart any day.
He’s motivated by power, and the fear of power being taken away.
But yes, likely motivated by power too.
The people who get to be billionaires are motivated differently to normal people. They are more like feudal kings.
But yes, confiscation of all his property and even the gallows (fortunately or unfortunately for everyone else) is not a risk Musk is facing yet.
