In Musk’s labyrinth: who is and what the richest man think in the world. On Tuesday the free book with the courier

«The fundamental weakness of western society is his empathy ». At the end of February, the Podcaster Joe Rogan, who with his interviews-films collects tens of millions of listeners, broadcasts a three-hour conversation with Elon Musk on his vision of politics, technology, of the world. And the statement that makes more sensation is this. Walter Isaacson says, author of a monumental biography of the head of Spacex, Tesla, X (ex Twitter) and, now, also of the doge of Trump, who spent months with Musk: «Elon Do you think you have to work for the whole of humanity: In fact, he has more empathy for humanity as a whole than for the 20 people around him ».

Admired (like Steve Jobs)

Ingenious character, but also very hard, sometimes fierce with his employees, a richest man in the world, but only – according to him – to have the resources necessary to carry out the central project of his life: to make the human species interplanetary colonizing Mars. Until Musk concentrated his visionary qualities, technological genius and engineering skills To open new horizons in terrestrial transport (the electric and autonomous driving car), In renewable energies (the photovoltaic of Solar City) and in space with Spacex, He was admired by almost everyone: his excesses were stored in the chapter « genius and unrulyness ». After all, Steve Jobs was also a brutal leader in Apple, but this only marginally scalp his myth. Nor did we care for a lot of his visions about society and the future. Or of obsessions like that for the denatality that he fights Putting the world repeating children (we are at 14).

But even then it was a « lunter »: That is, like his other street companions of the Silicon Valley (from Peter Thiel to Marc Andreesen, engaged with Elon alongside Trump and « Fathers » of JDVANCE’s candidacy for vice -president) one who, concentrated on great long -term goals, did not take care of the problems and suffering of contemporaries too much. As an entrepreneur, A problem especially for those who worked with him, dragged into extraordinary but tiring missions. As the protagonist of politicsthe attempt to impose radical reforms in a technocratic logic perhaps sacrificing the current democratic mechanismsmany jobs and welfare pieces (wants to revolutionize the pension system that considers fraudulent) is having relevant social costs that cause waves of protests. And boycott of the Tesla. A company, however, already entered into crisis due to the difficulty of obtaining results equal to the expectations of the equity markets.

Trump uses it or is it used?

Audacious comparisons, formulated while he becomes the turbocharger of the Trump campaign and then his right arm, if not even a « blanket » that brings the methods of the Disruption from Silicon Valley. Trump uses it or is used? It can always put it on the door, but Elon with the social network X and artificial intelligence manages communication, persuasion and verification of the effectiveness of the messages of which the President does not want to deprive himself.