What Is Elon Musk Up To?

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jim Meigs, our Tech COMMENTARY columnist, joins us today to explore the motivations of Elon Musk in taking the largest single ownership stake in Twitter. Why do people hate him so much? Is it just envy? And then we talk about cyberwar. Give a listen.

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0:00.0	CHEF
0:23.9	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday, April 5th, 2022.
0:29.7	I am John Pothor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.2	Christine Rosen is out today, in her place,
0:37.4	our old friend, a tech commentary contributor, fan favorite,
0:41.7	Jim Megs, James B. Megs, hi, thanks for joining us, Jim.
0:44.9	Hi, John.
0:45.8	And of course, executive editor,
0:47.8	a Greenwald, hi Abe.
0:49.6	Hi, John.
0:50.4	And associate editor, Norothman, hi, Noah.
0:52.6	Hi, John.
0:55.0	So I thought we'd change it up
0:58.4	and talk about something slightly a Kimbo from the news,
1:03.6	which is Elon Musk turned around and assembled himself 9%
1:11.3	of Twitter, but 9% of the shares of Twitter
1:14.9	making him the single largest shareholder
1:19.2	next to the activist hedge fund, Elliot Management.
1:24.2	And this seems to me to be a very significant development
1:30.6	in the PC tech wars,
1:35.6	because Musk is some kind of a techno libertarian,
1:41.5	whether or not his fortune is based on having gained
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