{"id":14532,"date":"2020-12-13T02:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14532"},"modified":"2020-12-13T02:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T02:11:35","slug":"grift-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14532","title":{"rendered":"grift&#8230;er&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/elon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/elon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/elon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/elon-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the tradition of grifter capitalism another capitalist grifter leverages the state socialist policies for predatory  grifter capitalist outcomes or something like that&#8230;(still working with the algorithm to get it more precise)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Elon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Elon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Elon-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-Elon-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-rocket.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-rocket.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-rocket-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Court-Painter-rocket-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Big Government Grift <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160500\/elon-musks-big-government-grift\">https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160500\/elon-musks-big-government-grift<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s entirely possible that this carnival barker of a CEO will continue finding crafty ways to extract tax breaks and favorable contracts from government entities for the rest of his career. But we should be alive to the ways in which Musk\u2019s reputation is built on a faulty foundation of borrowed money and worker exploitation. To Musk, the government is only useful in helping to enrich him, and he otherwise expects it to stay the hell out of his way. The problem is that he is now powerful and rich enough to get his wish. For all his supposed brilliance in developing electric vehicles and rockets, this may be his greatest talent: grifting the government. In doing so, he\u2019s creating a roadmap for reform, if politicians care to notice.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/authors\/jacob-silverman\">Jacob Silverman<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilvermanJacob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;&nbsp;@SilvermanJacob<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the tradition of grifter capitalism another capitalist grifter leverages the state socialist policies for predatory grifter capitalist outcomes or something like that&#8230;(still working with the algorithm to get it more precise) Elon Musk\u2019s Big Government Grift https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160500\/elon-musks-big-government-grift It\u2019s entirely possible that this carnival barker of a CEO will continue finding crafty ways to extract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;grift&#8230;er&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18092,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}