Musk alone might not be able to do much, but he's got a legion of retail investors behind him. So I'm hoping he's based, the PayPal Mafia all seem to have an axe to grind against the existing financial infrastructure. I'd count ARK with Musk, considering it's heavily invested in former PayPal execs businesses.

Look at what happened at the last Gamestop shareholder vote. Doesn't matter how much BlackRock and Vanguard own they loan out their shares to make money and place OBO votes knowing that only about 10% of investors vote so they still control the company without controlling the shares. Once activist retail investors arrive they're casting NOBO votes which every single one has to be counted and then OBO votes get pruned in the case of an over vote.

.>70% of GME investors voted. The "smart money" at BlackRock and Vanguard who loaned their shares out to SHFs that sold them to retail got ratioed with their own shares.

I see the GME saga as the birth of the activist retail investor. If MOASS happens, BlackRock and Vanguard are doomed. The apes aren't going to suddenly start giving up their voting rights when this is all over, they're going to be exercising them in every investment they make.