{"id":22479,"date":"2026-03-26T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/muskism-by-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff-review-how-elon-musk-is-reshaping-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:37:29","slug":"muskism-by-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff-review-how-elon-musk-is-reshaping-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/muskism-by-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff-review-how-elon-musk-is-reshaping-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskism by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff review \u2013 how Elon Musk is reshaping the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever \u2013 what kind of economic model do Musk\u2019s methods presage?<\/p>\n

Genius industrialist or clownish conman, humanity\u2019s saviour from a rapidly crumbling planet or\u00a0rabid social media troll \u2013 the\u00a0verdicts on the world\u2019s richest person vary in flavour, but most share something in common: they focus on Musk as an individual. In their study, Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Boston University, and Ben Tarnoff, a tech writer, wish to reframe the conversation. The most important question, they argue, is not \u201cwho is Musk?\u201d but \u201cwhat\u00a0is Musk a symptom of?\u201d<\/p>\n

As the title suggests, their answer is \u201cMuskism\u201d, the coinage a deliberate nod to Fordism, the shorthand for 20th-century capitalism built on the pairing of mass production with mass consumption. If Fordism was the last century\u2019s operating system, Slobodian and Tarnoff contend that Muskism is this century\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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\nHenry Ford changed the face of industry forever \u2013 what kind of economic model do Musk\u2019s methods presage?
\nGenius industrialist or clownish conman, humanity\u2019s saviour from a rapidly crumbling planet or\u00a0rabid social media troll \u2013 the\u00a0verdicts on the world\u2019s richest person vary in flavour, but most share something in common: they focus on Musk as an individual. In their study, Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Boston University, and Ben Tarnoff, a tech writer, wish to reframe the conversation. The most important question, they argue, is not \u201cwho is Musk?\u201d but \u201cwhat\u00a0is Musk a symptom of?\u201d
\nAs the title suggests, their answer is \u201cMuskism\u201d, the coinage a deliberate nod to Fordism, the shorthand for 20th-century capitalism built on the pairing of mass production with mass consumption. If Fordism was the last century\u2019s operating system, Slobodian and Tarnoff contend that Muskism is this century\u2019s. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever \u2013 what kind of economic model do Musk\u2019s methods presage? Genius industrialist or clownish conman, humanity\u2019s saviour from a rapidly crumbling planet or\u00a0rabid social media troll \u2013 the\u00a0verdicts on the world\u2019s richest person vary in flavour, but most share something in common: they focus on Musk as …<\/p>\n

Muskism by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff review \u2013 how Elon Musk is reshaping the world<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}