He’s built electric cars, rockets, and surrounded the earth in low orbit satellites that can control the internet for militaries and millions of people around the world.

Most billionaires declare a public persona to hide the greed and avarice needed to horde millions and millions and billions of dollars — depriving the rest of the world of food, medicine and eletricity.

In the 19th Century, Carnegie, Rockafeller and few other “100-millionaires” started giving their fortunes away for theaters, hospitals and colleges to market themselves as “benefactors.” Bill Gates pretended to be a giant nerd to diffuse the scary power Microsoft had an acquired in the early days of PC’s and desktop computing and gave away just enough money to reduce his taxes.

Warren Buffet laid low in small homes and small talk and built his fortune through long term investing rather than monopolizing power through technology.

Even Mark Zuckerberg has been able to hide behind a mask of being as robotic and malleable as possible to seem like he is almost everything to everyone — while his algorithms destroy lives for profit.

Bezos was the “business genius” — who brought us free two-day shipping and Prime benefits and didn’t seem to wish us harm. Even when he first bought The Washington Post it was in the name of saving an important voice of independence. (Of course that turned out to be bullshit too).

Since the Reagan revolution “trickled up” all the wealth to the top, these billionaires and titans of business have been able to hold themselves up as heroes. Everybody wants to have “fuck you” money and seemingly “anybody” could reach such heights. Just look at them — it doesn’t seem to take a massive genius to attain a billion dollars.

Building “good companies”, pushing technology to make our lives easier and giving away billions to fight disease seemed like an OK deal to many for far too long.

But Musk is leading all the modern day Robber Barons down the rabbit hole of self-idolatry, adolescent ego trips and greed for all of us to see. Right down to paying professional “gamers” to impersonate him so he can be “atop” the leaderboard.

Or worse, throwing up the Nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and then gaslighting us to say that he didn’t.

I won’t detail all of Musk’s manic failures. You can read them here from Max Read on substack (and if you want the latest in his atrocious behavior and acts — you can subscribe to Musk Watch from Popular Information.

As the world’s richest and, obviously psychologically, the world’s neediest man, the techBros and other billionaires seem to have decided it’s OK for them to live out their adolescent fantasies as well. Growing perms and taking martial arts classes, blasting themselves into low orbit, publicly cheating on their wives and openly on the hunt for a young gold digger.

Maybe even all of that could be forgiven.

But now Musk has allied with Trump in an open oligarchy to take political power through unlimited (and depressingly relatively “little”) donations to force politicians and other businesses to bend the knee.

As Musk contemplates cutting or killing social security and medicare to pay for Trumps next round of tax cuts and give aways to his “class,” maybe these are the billionaires we need to finally wake up people to forget party and start a political war against their oppressors.

It’s not the immigrants or your neighbors holding you down. It’s the billionaires at the top holding the cash and corrupting the system so they grow their fortunes at your expense.

Maybe Musk’s terrible example will be the rallying cry for people to forget party and vote in their own best interests — to curb the political power of these oligarchs — to break up the monopolies and allow others to compete fairly — to bring back pensions, unions and bargaining power for all people.

I long for the day when we bring these billionaires down to size — tax them at the rates that we pay – enforce an inheritance tax on their children and heirs who did noting to earn the money and rebuild America like we did 80 years ago.

Elon Musk may be the poster child of “evil billionaire” we need to make that political swing back to the center.