Elon Musk essentially functions as a human loophole in the antitrust regulatory system. Whether or not it’s the deliberate purpose of why he runs his businesses this way, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to argue that if a single corporation controlled most of the world’s satellites, and most of the US’s fast-charging stations for EVs, and one of the most politically influential social media platforms, etc., questions of antitrust violations might be raised.
Instead, hilariously enough, Elon Musk is the one suing on the basis of antitrust violations, and while he may not have won his case against advertisers who chose to boycott X, the lawsuit does serve nicely as an implicit threat against anyone who tries to disrupt his disruptiveness. This isn’t an article about all of that, though: rather, it’s about the interconnections between all of Musk’s various business operations, and what those interconnections may imply for the future of manufacturing.
Reportedly in the process of taking SpaceX public, less than two months after executing “the largest merger of all time” in a deal that combined xAI with the launch giant, Musk also recently confirmed that he would be getting into the semiconductor game, after first….
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