Musk seems to think countries are sports teams
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Elon is a futurist. Everything good about him is motivated by that singular driving motivation, and so is everything bad about him. He hates woke because he (correctly) believes it stifles innovation and competition and thereby retards human progress. He hates government inefficiency and high taxes for the same reason. He likes the American way of doing things and he fought for free speech and the open marketplace of ideas because he (again, correctly) believes that approach to be the most conducive to technological innovation and progress. He wants skilled immigrants so he can enlist their talents in building his cybertopia.
To figure out what Elon's position will be on any given issue, all you have to ask is "Will this help us get to Mars?"
If you believe in a human species in a galaxy of other planets and potentially other species, than yes, countries are like sports teams. In the same way sports teams provide an echo of city states fighting other city states. Something which has been left behind and social and political power structures increase in size and complexity from city states to countries.
Elon is just ahead of his time. And while it's a "globalist" position, its a rare positive depiction of globalism.