Billionaires function as agile, single-person states. Elon Musk chats with Putin and supports Trump., guilty of a lot of crimes in the USA and candidate for his second term. Trump is immune, according to law dictated by judges he appointed. Elon Musk Has made $330 billion in one day as Tesla’s stock rises. The people who drive his cars are brand evangelists. Musk drives satellites and launches rockets for NASA. Boeing fails its planes and space shuttles and Musk’s rockets work and do amazing things: vertical descent and even giant clamps catch the rocket so it doesn’t have to lean or fall into the sea. It’s all mind-blowing. A few have blown up before, he takes it as learning and keeps going. He wanted to make a train in a tube, he let it be, nothing happens.
Billionaires who can do more than the states. Musk has more influence than the Pope.
Every day there are more and more homeless people everywhere. In California, in Spain. In California, in Spain. IMF suggests imposing more taxes on the rich and corporations. But if it is done they fly both. And the practice gives a bad name among global investors, who put a pin in those countries.
It is raining more than ever, after last year’s drought, reservoirs are overflowing and droughts are lethal, we thought there were only tornadoes and hurricanes in the US and they have comethe sea is burning. There are several fronts with success problems, such as the high-speed trains in Spain. From that Ave to Mecca is no longer talked about (only commissions), but it works. It goes at full throttle. And it carries crystals invented ad hoc for the desert.
There are more poor people than ever in paradise. And working. A teenager has committed suicide after an intense relationship with a chatbot. Kids are brought up watching porn although the news pops up intermittently, it’s not a fixed topic. One news item follows another. A thousand news items run over a thousand other news items and this minute hasn’t even passed yet.
Putin, who chats with Musk according to WSJ, has held a summit of the BRICS, the alternative world to the empire in force, the empire is still alive. The whole world has two allies from different sides: with China and with the USA, with Israel and with the Arab countries, etc. The blocs fluctuate. The China Russia Korea Iran axis… does not prevent China from going its own way. It is already powerful enough to maintain two or five faces: in one it is Putin’s ally, in another it participates or leads in the BRICS; in another it goes it alone buying continents, meanders, seaports and selling everything, generators. It could invade Taiwan without firing a bullet. Perhaps it is doing so. China is having a hard time implementing its soft power. (except in bars), or maybe it has already inseminated us with such subtlety that we do not realize it. We have yet to adore its brands as we once adored our own. But maybe that’s already happening: children are almost all tiktokers. There is a future educated in porn and Tiktok. And Chinese online stores are inside millions of little hearts and visas.
In general, the dictatorship vs. democracy struggle continues. Two systems within financial capitalism: a single faith with its splits. It could be assimilated to the Protestant Reformation that split Christianity in two or to the binomial that confronts Shiites with Sunnites among Muslims. What is indisputable is capitalism. No more pretending. And within it, two systems are struggling. Lhe dictatorships -except China- pretend to be democracies, adopt their terminology and appearances, but if you raise your voice they shoot you. Some democracies are approaching step by step the methods of dictatorships. The famous Nobel Prize-winning scheme of Why countries fail, abducted, corrupt, useless institutions. Here too there is a gray zone where hyperrealities converge. There are countries that are already cracked, that have no electricity, such as Cuba. There are more or less declared narco-states and other mixed ones, where democracy coexists with the narcos, who also configure global power in alliances and trade.
The trillionaires, by the very magnitude of their business, cannot relate/negotiate only with one side (the sides are mixed, there is a gray zone), so they function as one-man states endowed with more power, more resources and fewer constraints than traditional ones. Musk has had to concede something with X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil.
These personal states function as dictatorships only subject, and not always, to the ups and downs of the markets. The Unipersonal States of the West behave like dictatorships. In dictatorships billionaires cannot prosper, they cannot reach the level of unipersonal states.
Globalization, which has given way – and diversified – in trade by dint of geostrategy, tariffs and sanctions, is growing in other circuits, sectors and shadows. Y expands through the path of the mega-billionaires. who manage the sky, space and data.