It’s not about empathy or kindness or any of that dumb shit.

It’s about the simple fact that capitalist economics can’t exist in perpetuity without an exploitable population, if most people are no longer able to work, push enough people to enough desperation and they will kill you if it keeps them warm, and there ain’t enough bullets in the world that’ll stop all of them.

On the other hand if you make sure the people have their bread, then one of them might become the nurse that’ll make you comfortable when you pass away, or a scientist that’ll cure you when you’re sick, or a techbro who’ll invent something that you’ll like, or a writer who’ll make a good show you’ll enjoy, or whatever, really.

If you’re a true egoist, you’re an altruist also. Libertarianism would’ve been cool, but it just isn’t actually possible, and people like Musk aren’t libertarians, no libertarian could argue against trans people because a true lolbert would know it’s people’s economics freedom all the same.

People like Musk are actual nazis who keep the wignaggery on the DL because it’s unpalatable. They’re not your friends, but collectively (rather than individually), humanity is your friend.