Why exactly did we need tariffs on EVs? Because it sure looks like Biden put those in place to protect the business interests of a Nazi who is now a trillionaire.
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We have failed not just as a society but as a species by allowing him and all like him to survive this long.
Capitalism is amongst the worst things humanity has ever designed. We’ve not just allowed, but encouraged the rise of the likes of Musk and Thiel, celebrating their success even! Too many people believe the lie; it cannot be modified or replaced. They believe this lie, while idolizing Musk thinking that could be me one day.
The celebration part and the "white knights" defending these cunts using oversimplified logic is what made me lose faith in humanity.
We are really asking so hard to go extinct is not even funny anymore.
Honestly believe extinction or at least some kind of end of life as we know it isn’t that far off.
We will eventually lose our purpose to the elites. What will they do with us then?
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I saw someone excusing this with "but they are creating wealth" in the anti consumption subreddit today. We're beyond fucked.
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UNFORTUNATELY we CANT Tax this TRILLION DOLLARS because it's not REAL money but Also Elon Musk can BUY Countries because it's Real Money!
-Republicans!
Time for some kinetic wealth redistribution.
If we do it now everyone gets $125 and if we exclude everyone who has over $1M we get way more than $125
I don’t care if it’s $3.50, just as long as Elon Musk is made the example he deserves to be. A single room apartment, with a crappy landlord who never fixes anything, and a job that never allows his head to be above water. He can become the exploited worker he’s always dreamed of.
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Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
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Ah, British insults 🤗
There is a trillionaire now, and people are letting this happen. We should all be in the streets up in arms together and not leave until Elmo musk is brought down to destination
No more billionaires, no more super millionaires, I want wealth caps! Nobody should be worth more than 10 million dollars, any income over that must go straight to taxes, world wide
What we need to do is ban using securities as loan collateral. That'll end this bullshit in its tracks.
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i hope his dick falls off in the toilet tonight.
just falls right off. no trauma, no event, but just plop there it goes.
fuck elon. fuck xai.
build the fuckin water treatment plant you promised in memphis.
From your lips to God's ears my friend.
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Also billions in welfare from the US government.
In 2020, Elon Musk was worth around $25 billion dollars.
Eat the rich.
I was hoping he'd fail to get that valuation but you know what, it's fitting. Capitalism is bullshit, neoliberalism is a scam, a king of obvious, ridiculous frauds having the hugh score in the game is perfectly fitting.
Don't forget a Nazi also.
I doubt the second and third trillionaires won't also be killers
Well I'm sure the second trillionaire will be nice and down-to-earth
Its insane the thing he did with the stock offering where he gets stock every time they produce stock. He has made so many bad decisions he should be a story about a rich guy who lost it all but because we have eliminated tax on the rich its now almost impossible to lose money.
Every empire of wealth is built on the suffering of others. The only one I can think of that isn't is Dolly Parton's.
Steam? My local music instrument producer? High class restaurants? There are some but not many.
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America is built on suffering. We are all pieces of shit and murders.
Is that the guy who at Christmas day begged Epstein to let him in his island?
His companies have been valued at $X billion/million each. That doesn't mean he (or any of the "richest people") actually has that much wealth. It means that he has gamed the system of company valuation. He needs that for his fragile ego.
Of course they're all still wayyyyy too rich, but -
Fuck that "trillionaire" shit. Every time this is mentioned, Musk's ego is stroked. And I feel dirty just writing that last sentence. Eww.
No and yes. Actual wealth is stupid complicated and difficult to see, but when you have stocks priced that high, you can trade shares or take bank loans against them. So in some sense, it's partially real money.
That Schrodinger's wealth is super useful for gaming the tax system, and since it's not in cash or gold or whatever, you can't really guillotine the owners and distribute it because without the backing of banking and stock market, those stocks are indeed worthless.
As you can see, the neoliberal "free market x combines worst parts of every system and serves only evil, corrupt ones. There can never anything good come out of such an economic system.
You can take loans against the "worth" of your company, which has been overvalued in a corrupt way. It can grow into a pyramid scheme; Musk certainly did this.
Not only can you take loans against your shares, but you can pay the interest on those loans with dividends from the shares, and because they're a loans, the cash-in-hand is not taxable, so you pay NO TAX on it. You have no "income" on paper, but you can pay people and companies with shares instead of money, shares that you can literally conjure into existence by typing numbers into a spreadsheet. Those money and shares are really useful for greasing the palms of politicians, government officials, and hangers-on so that you can get your way. You can even use this money and influence to cause riots and stoke division in society.
His net worth is inflated even by American standards where net worth is already insanely inflated.
A lot of times, company evaluation is calculated by being roughly 10x it's yearly revenue. Alphabet, meta, all fit this. Space X is literally valued close to 100x
company evaluation is calculated
I listened to a podcast about this and according to that it's more insidious; valuation companies are owned by the people who own the business to be valued, and similar types of corruption.
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If I had a dollar for every dollar Elon Musk made earnestly, I'd have like twenty bucks. He's a figurehead that is being used to hold that much money and act all childish because the alt-right pipeline starts in middle school and unsocialized boys look up to him and thus branch into STEM. The FBI does a similar thing with influencers they use as the centerpiece to cults of personality to create means in which to keep an eye on and investigate certain archetypes in the culture, as well as provide propaganda to.
Demonic levels of wealth
we are already counting over an estimated million deaths (mostly children) as a direct result for him making those super duper funding cuts for basically any basic needs for the poorest and most in need, all to mildly chip away at the cost of the super duper tax cuts the world's richest were getting at the same time.
not just a "killer," he's the world's richest person and he directly decided that mountains of children should die.
how do you define a cartoon villain?
he is so evil that he looks like a parody of evil.
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Asshole of the world.
benefited from his equally abhorrent dad, who owned at least part of an emerald mine that gave him his starting fortune.
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