I don’t know. I’m reserving judgment about Musk. We tend to assume that wealthy people (heck, most people) want power. And that may be true in many or even most cases. But sometimes, what we think drives people or should drive people isn’t the reality. Like when leftists say that they don’t understand why rural poor people vote Republican, because it’s against their “own interests”. They assume the driving force and motivation is money. When actually, for a lot of these people, freedom and being left alone to do their own thing is far more important.

Musk is kind of an odd bird though. I think there is a chance he might be motivated by other things. Again, reserving judgment because I agree it is certainly possible he’s jockeying for power but I am not seeing it so far.