Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Musk Keeps Paying for X

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It is sometimes useful to think of all of Elon Musk’s ventures as one big company. I like to call it the Musk Mars Conglomerate, because it seems to be loosely organized around a theme of getting humans to Mars. (SpaceX rockets will take them there, Boring Company will dig tunnels for their habitats, Tesla will build appropriately cyberpunk vehicles to travel around Mars and Twitter/X will, I am not even kidding, be the government. ) Musk’s ventures seem to pretty freely share employees, resources, money and investors; sometimes, when it is convenient, they even ...