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The People's Subpoena of Musk

Elon Musk,  the world's richest man, recently bought twitter on a wimp, and fired half of its staff. In some ways, this is not news. For most of this century, companies have been treating employee as expendable digits to sacrificed for the sake of profitability. In some ways, this is different, Musk's purchase of twitter is satirical and the layoffs a direct result of his refusal to plan ahead. Further, Musk has an established habit of irresponsible actions which is financially ruinous to others and sometimes fatal: Tesla's (Musk's other company) claims for self driving ; the Tesla Semi ; the boring company . Behind each of these statistics is a human life. Almost surely, some of the people affected will seek to take their life; more will be ruined, their families destroyed, their children crying. We understand that for our country to be strong, sometimes the weak must be sacrificed. But these people were not sacrificed for country, they were sacrificed as a jest.  Who