Elon Musk Emerges as a Critic of World Government

In parley at Dubai, he warns of too much cooperating between countries.

AP/Benjamin Fanjoy, file
Elon Musk at San Francisco on January 24, 2023. AP/Benjamin Fanjoy, file

Attendees of the World Government Summit at Dubai may be returning home with the slogan “Shaping Future Governments” ringing in their collectivist ears. Elon Musk, though, is emerging as the leader for those who see national sovereignty and individual rights as the best tools to safeguard liberty.

“I know this is called the World Government Summit,” YouTube records Mr. Musk, one of the richest men in history, telling the gathering, “but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.” This set fire to the conventional wisdom that Big Government is good and the bigger the better.

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