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Geopolitics

Elon Musk's Martian Bounty: A New Frontier for Neo-Imperial Capital

SpaceX has approved an unprecedented compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk, potentially granting him 200 million super-voting shares if the company reaches a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishes a human colony on Mars with a million residents, and 60.4 million shares for building space-based data centers. This obscene and out-of-touch spectacle of billionaire hubris, prioritizing interplanetary fantasies while billions on Earth struggle for basic dignity, starkly exposes the imperialist logic of capital seeking new frontiers for exploitation beyond our plundered planet.