Power Concentration at the Trillion Dollar Scale

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Elon Musk as first trillionaire? https://chatgpt.com/share/6a08b6f4-a014-83e8-a652-76e5c29f4f07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNuB9pj9P8

The Realistish Numbers

  • Perhaps 50-100 billion of capex annually across Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX [1]
  • If he's up to $100 billion in capex, what is his payroll and number of employees across all companies? $10-20B, so perhaps 1/2-1/4 of Capex [2]

Countermeasures

Is such and similar concentration good? Let's zoom out.

Closed innovation concentrates knowledge, capital, and decision-making within proprietary institutions, enabling short-term coordination efficiency but ultimately constraining civilization-scale innovation through fragmentation, duplicated effort, artificial scarcity, and restricted participation; open innovation, by contrast, treats knowledge as a shared regenerative commons in which information flows openly while execution remains competitively distributed, enabling parallel experimentation, rapid cumulative learning, interoperable production ecosystems, and market-driven implementation excellence that together dramatically increase the long-term rate, resilience, and inclusiveness of technological and societal advancement.

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