With Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire, it's a good time to revisit Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's deep dive on the Muskism-Fordism comparison.
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Today, @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com consider whether "Muskism" could serve as a possible successor to post-Fordism.
How should we understand Muskism's distinctive regime of accumulation, and what kind of social contract does it propose to stabilize its disruptive effects?
Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?
