Elon Musk and MrBeast are building sinister company towns
We should be extremely wary of the super-rich building “utopias” for their workers
ByElon Musk is a businessman, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of Twitter, and has been estimated to be the world’s richest man. He was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and after studying at University of Pennsylvania embarked on a career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Zip2, a software company that was bought for $300m in 1999.
We should be extremely wary of the super-rich building “utopias” for their workers
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