| Vast control over the US Federal Government and impunity for him and all his companies to violate the law. It's hard to put a price on the power to fire people investigating your company for wrongdoing. Or the power to blow up starships even though you were told by the government you can't launch more because you blew up the last one, raining down debris on everyone and causing their flights to be grounded. Wouldn't you love to be able to do that without any repercussions? Or to test your driverless car tech on public roads and not get in trouble no matter how many people they kill. Or to sell your unsold vehicle inventory, that's building up because your product is a boondoggle, directly to the government. Or the power to bully foreign governments into using your product with the full backing of the United States military. Or to award yourself and your companies government contracts worth billions of dollars without having to bid or compete over them. Or to train your fledgling AI on all the information you're scraping about Americans from government data sources unavailable to your competitors. Or to cancel government projects that benefit your competitors, like killing investments in EV charging infrastructure, forcing everyone to use the one you own. Or to test your brain implant on human subjects without the pesky FDA up your ass making sure it's done "humanely". On and on and on. The corruption is just endless if you're creative enough... |