Billionaire favorability as political signal

Create and maintain a standardized, poll‑weighted favorability index for top billionaires (beginning with Elon Musk) to serve as a real‑time gauge of elite legitimacy and cross‑sector influence. The index would track net favorability over time, control for pollster house effects, and flag abrupt shifts that correlate with investor flows, regulatory pressure, or mobilized online campaigns. — Such an index would give policymakers, journalists and investors a simple, data‑driven early warning about when a private actor’s social license is strengthening or eroding — with downstream effects on politics, markets and platform governance.