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Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Pinnacle of Capitalist 'Civilisation'

In 2025,  Elon Musk  received the median Tesla worker’s pay every 4.23 seconds. He received  over 2.5m times as much compensation at  Tesla  as the company’s average worker. The report also looks at  Donald Trump ’s  income  in 2025. At  $2.2bn , largely from his crypto holdings, Trump’s income rose nearly 254% from 2024. The median US worker would require 43,154 years to earn what Trump received in 2025. That's what the far-right and the neofascists applaud and justify, including their support of imperialist aggressions.

Elon Musk

“Elon Musk possesses a huge fortune not because he ‘earned’ it but rather because the rules of the game under capitalism permit capitalist investors like him to accumulate vast personal wealth at the expense of the larger working population. Musk has proven to be a particularly lucky and adept contestant in the game. But an appraisal of his personal attributes should in no way obscure this simple fact: outside of the socio-economic order based on private ownership of the productive assets of society and the pursuit of private profit through the exploitation of wage labour, a success of Musk’s type and magnitude is simply inconceivable.” —  Murray E.G. Smith and Tim Hayslip in Thinking Systematics, 2024