You should ask ChatGPT the following: "explain "lords and peasants""
It's a bit long to reproduce here but the gist of it is that lords had rights and privileges that peasants (serfs) didn't.
Those privileges were not based on merit (e.g. you started a successful business and made lots of money) but on bloodline or being given the lord title by monarchy.
Musk made this comment in the context old blue checkmark regime at twitter where Twitter was the monarchy (i.e. the king) bestowing status of a lord (blue checkmark) not based on objective merit but based completely on whims of Twitter. And everyone else was a peasant: no blue checkmark and no way of escaping the status of a peasant other than hoping the King (Twitter) will bestow that status onto you.
In capitalistic society some people have more money than others. What makes capitalistic society different than feudal society is that everyone has the same right under law (even if that's not perfectly implemented) and you're not forever bound to low status in society. You can go from a peasant to a lord.
> Musk made this comment in the context old blue checkmark regime at twitter where Twitter was the monarchy (i.e. the king) bestowing status of a lord (blue checkmark) not based on objective merit but based completely on whims of Twitter.
He used the phrase the other day as explicitly the reason he doesn’t like unions. It was part of that interview that was full of painful awkwardness and “holy shit, did he really just say that?” moments, in which he constantly exuded big dude-everyone-avoids-at-the-party energy, which left us all wondering which drugs he was on, so we can avoid them.
“Dealbook summit musk” will find you various long clips. It is indeed a fascinating watch, and entertaining if you’re the sort who finds stuff like Tim and Eric funny (I do)
The part that got the most attention was when he literally told objecting advertisers to “go fuck themselves” and, when the interviewer repeatedly tried to extract from him what his plan is to turn the company profitable while turning off advertisers, he dodged, implied he didn’t care about that, and finally said some insane shit like “oh yeah, it’ll kill the company. But the world will judge them” (?!?!)
[edit] to emphasize how nuts this was, because I’m not sure the above captures it, he also told those advertisers to stay gone (separately from “go fuck yourselves”) and when the trying-his-damnedest-to-be-sympathetic interviewer tried to prompt Musk to explain what his plan is for the company in the face of substantial advertiser (so, customer) revolt that he just encouraged, Musk dissembled, then finally just said the company is doomed but that he’s ok with that because he feels he’s winning a moral victory. It’s batshit crazy and I can only imagine what it’s like as an employee to see the CEO/owner say he expects the company to fail and display a total lack of interest in preventing it.
It's a bit long to reproduce here but the gist of it is that lords had rights and privileges that peasants (serfs) didn't.
Those privileges were not based on merit (e.g. you started a successful business and made lots of money) but on bloodline or being given the lord title by monarchy.
Musk made this comment in the context old blue checkmark regime at twitter where Twitter was the monarchy (i.e. the king) bestowing status of a lord (blue checkmark) not based on objective merit but based completely on whims of Twitter. And everyone else was a peasant: no blue checkmark and no way of escaping the status of a peasant other than hoping the King (Twitter) will bestow that status onto you.
In capitalistic society some people have more money than others. What makes capitalistic society different than feudal society is that everyone has the same right under law (even if that's not perfectly implemented) and you're not forever bound to low status in society. You can go from a peasant to a lord.