politics

Honest question: How can this guy be stopped?

How do you stop a man with

- half a trillion dollars.
- his own satellite internet network, capable of starting and ending wars.
- his own rockets and satellites. 
- himself a media behemoth - “I am the media now” he means to say, not X - with access to hundreds of millions of people every day, 
- with full control of the world’s most powerful country’s president and even more…

…how do you stop such a force from disrupting your political process as a country? 

Has the world ever seen a more powerful - supposedly private citizen?

the whole "stop this man" to me is a question than a statement, and its answer depends on whether one would actually go to lengths to disrupt the due process and one's motives to do so

if the motives are net good, and the results of them are beneficial to the country as a whole, why stop them? american revolution comes to mind.

btw, there are more powerful people than Elon who we've not even heard of, who exploit existing systems to benefit themselves and their buddies

i'd say recent "medal of freedom" laureates are a case in point here

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I agree with you. Accountability is the basis of good stewardship, and I think democracy as we know is the problem here.

Check what Aristotle thought of actual democracy and why he insisted it’s fallacious to pursue it. He even called the collapse of Athens due to democratic corruption.

However, he wasn’t just critiquing it. He proposed a better system which we haven’t seen explored yet, because it’s very difficult to have corruption in it.

It’s called “politeia” or “polity”. I reckon we may see tendencies towards implementing soon, once the existing systems collapse (eventually).

I feel someone like elon is "necessary" at this stage of human existence. The revolution he's starting is not going to stop with America and Europe alone. The positives are enormous. 

The question is, what if one day he changed and he started moving another way? How can he be stopped, I feel no single person shown hold this lever of power without a system to check and balance him!.

Also, I don't think there's anyone more powerfully than elon AT THE MOMENT. Maybe some have more networks within the government to pull certain strings, but elon is different. He's just a wild freak