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Well, this is annoying
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The system is broken.
His shitty IPO is coming up, so that's gonna sink soon.
How much of that 800 billion is SpaceX though? I figured it would mostly be Tesla.
You know, we could all work together to make sure he doesn't.
I genuinely hope he or pat of his person quits before that and he becomes the too close to sun example in real life.
Only a matter of time until someone else is a trillionaire then.
Same for them and anyone else. I mean, so many people die or get severe health issues every day. I just want some statistics to work that way that's all. You know how COVID specifically was bad for older people, I am interested in the statistics of something else that's specifically bad for billionaire class.
Western culture celebrates greed, and remains silent on colonization.
Remains silent?
I've heard much about colonization, and I'm in the Western culture. That's, like, the exact opposite of silent
Musk isn’t worth US$800B, it’s how much he’s been permitted to hoard.
No one can earn a billion dollars, that level of wealth concentration can only ever be forcibly extracted from the work of millions of others, or gifted from someone who did.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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Musk has assets, not money. If everybody of the 8 billion people would get $100 worth of those shares nobody could eat one bite more unless some people start buying the assets and restart the cycle.
Musk has control over companies, over capital. When do people start doing the same, as people, instead of handing their money and control to index funds?
Billionaires lend against those assets, so they can buy stuff. Does Musk sit under a bridge, 'cause he has "only assets"? Where does the money come from?
He lends against his assets. Once the bank wants to collect, his assets are worth more, so he lends more and stays afloat. Bonus points: he's saving on taxes now, 'cause he's in so much debt.
If everybody had those shares, they could play the lending game as well. Only, they can't, because nobody lends against one share ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could buy every homeless person in the US a $990,000 house.
If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could eliminate world hunger for 24 years.
If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, We could buy every NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL team. We’d have enough money left over to also buy the top 20 European Soccer teams.
If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could fund NASA at its current budget for 40 years.
You had me a we could kill musk.
These are true facts, however it's also true that we already have a number of unsold homes on the market greater than we have number of homeless people. We already make enough food to feed everyone. We just choose to let people sleep hungry on the streets. That's what our democracy has voted for.
So what does musk's billions and trillions matter? He could have two trillion tomorrow, and we'd still have enough money as a country to take care of everyone, and we would count up the votes that say not to.
These are just examples meant to give context on how much money he has.
Alternatively if we just took all his assets and didn't kill him we could put Elon Musk to work in an emerald mine in South Africa and get some added value.
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The first part of their little equation might work, the second part though...
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I hate people writing about his "worth". He's worth shit. He robbed 800 billion from us.
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I am firmly convinced that most of the problems facing humanity can be traced directly back to billionaires like him.
It’s quite simple: you can only become that rich if you are an utterly inhuman, unscrupulous monster. Unfortunately, it is precisely these monsters who rule the world, and they have created systems that require you to be a monster in order to succeed.
Have you considered that maybe he just works 1-10 billion times harder than the rest of us, and therefore earned that money fair and square?
/s
Oh, right, sorry, I completely forgot that this guy has amazing tech-genius superpowers and works as hard all by himself as millions uppon millions of us pathetically useless plebs put together...
Also /s, of course :)
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This is an oversimplification.
He ALSO stopped us from having good public transportation, built a dangerous deathtrap maze of underground tunnels, built cars that straight up murdered people, and blew up billions in taxpayer dollars multiple times.
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