Elon Musk’s death drive
The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
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Quinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.
The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
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By Quinn Slobodian