Overdrawn at the Gravitas Bank<p>'Fun' fact: the Doge of Venice was a dictator, formally elected by the rich and powerful families but really passed-down in the standard ways of autocratic succession, that is inheritance and violent power-struggles.</p><p>Mr Musk may like the word 'doge' both because he may feel it his rightful position in society and because the Medici _were_, often, great patrons of the arts.</p><p>The word is derived from the Latin 'dux', from which we get the English 'duke' and the Italian 'Duce'.</p><p><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/PlainSight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainSight</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a></p>