Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Thomas Sowell"
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The VP grew up in Canada between 5th grade and her freshman year at college, so she has experience from her formative years of such things as extensive government ownership of industry and, notably, wage & price controls (1975-78).
All her social and political ideas and policies bear a strong imprint from those years, all of them during the prime ministership of Pierre Trudeau when Canada was actually much more left-wing than it is now, economically at least.
Yet he was considered a center-left moderate, and in truth he was — compared to her. Canadians will understand when I say she would be America's first NDP president. (It's Canada's leftmost national party.)
She promises to introduce price controls, probably thinking of them as within the bounds of normality due to that experience. But they failed in Canada, taking barely 1% off inflation over three years (!) but shaving 2.5% off wages. Living standards fell.
Although Trudeau finally ended the controls, angry voters soon afterwards threw him out of office. But I bet she sees that as totally beside the point, since leftists and no-limits liberals never care whether left policies work or not. To them success resides in imposing them, not in producing positive results.
It's interesting to note that she and the appalling Justin Trudeau, whom I call Prime Minister Peter Pan, grew up in adjacent wealthy neighborhoods in Montreal (Westmount and the Golden Square Mile). They didn't know each other, but are political soulmates to this day and probably forever.
Everybody talks about her various identities as American, African-American, Indian and Jamaican, but in my opinion she's an absolutely standard, mass-made old Canadian lefty.
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Musk doesn't belong on that list. He doesn't even own a house, let alone private islands or holiday estates, almost never goes on vacation, and owns no boats or other costly toys except for a movie prop Lotus car. He doesn't even wear conspicuously expensive clothes, as anyone can see.
He does own a few cars (4 Teslas, a Model T, a Porsche and an old Jaguar) and uses a Gulfstream 700 plane frequently. I don't know if he owns or leases it but doing a lot of flying is certainly an inescapable requirement of his work. In that sense I would say it can't be looked on as part of an 'extravagant lifestyle.' His favourite restaurant in Austin where he lives, serves Mexican food.
I would bet that someone else does his housekeeping, but apart from that he has zero personal staff, running his life entirely on his own. (He also has no assistant at work.)
Concerning his living arrangements, he's been living at the houses of friends for a few years since selling his house in SF. It's been rumored for some time that he's having a house built near Austin, but this is unconfirmed. (Some years back he owned several houses in LA as investments and rented them out until getting rid of them all.)
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