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Elon Musk and the trillionaire class test democracy's limits

The one-person, one-vote principle never accounted for billionaires, let alone trillionaires.

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Elon Musk became world's first trillionaire ($1.3T via SpaceX), 4× Larry Page's wealth. Extreme wealth concentration erodes "one person, one vote" democracy; mega-wealthy control politics/media without accountability, triggering legitimacy crisis and authoritarianism risk—material governance and compliance factor for tech leadership decisions.

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The one-person, one-vote principle never accounted for billionaires, let alone trillionaires

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June 20, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

SpaceX founder Elon Musk (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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