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The Sunday Read: ‘Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction’

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Musk's Utilitarian Calculus Isn't a Good Thing.

Some of Musk's most questionable decisions begin to make sense if seen as a result of a blunt utilitarian calculus. He called Twitter a digital town square that was responsible for nothing less than preventing a new American civil war. Even Musk's harshest critics would pause, unbidden, to give him credit for creating the now robust market in electric vehicles.

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