If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children starve, you're the problem.
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Why do so many people still use Twitter? Why do so many people still buy Teslas? It seems like everyone hates Elon but not enough to do even the easiest boycott ever.
Don't forget that X.com is a child pornography generator.
Also anyone opposed to all this needs to also boycott grok and anthropic (which pays spacex for compute). But you should probably avoid all ai to be safe.
A friend of mine who is a DC comics fan just purchased a Tesla. He’s rationalised everything as “but it’s a good car”. Brother, you just supported real life Lex Luthor while wearing a SuperMan T-shirt…
In other words; there are people out there who claim pure morals while ignoring heinous and terrible things just to have an extra 100km of range. So what the CEO made decisions that will kill millions? The car now has rear door releases! Think of the safety!
just to have an extra 100km of range.
Fake range. They just put a larger number on their screen.
Last autumn I spent the day with a surveyor at work, who believed in the new world order, cancel culture, covid vaccines were controlling our minds, IMF conspiracies, etc etc. Also drove a Tesla.
So he's a right wing nut job who supports right-wing nut jobs, sounds about right
Teslas have the worst safety ratings from every single electric car. Including the largest fail and defect numbers.
May Saint Kendrik bless him with the ability to hate with his whole heart.
Skip that and tell the truth: At that point - you're no longer human. You're in opposition to us and there's no option but to kill whatever trillionares are.
They are no longer humans.
I hate Elon Musk.
everyone hates elon
I'm pretty sure that kicks in at a billion.
7 billion was the projected amount it would take to end world hunger. So yes it would be very doable for the world to be a better place if the rich were simply taxed and followed the same laws as everyone else.
7 billion was the projected amount it would take to end world hunger.
Lie—that was nonsense that went viral, and immediately collapsed under scrutiny. That claim was tweeted at Musk, and when he replied saying 'explain how that would work and I'll give you the money right now', he got a sheepish response to the tune of 'well actually, it would only help, not end it, and only temporarily'.
A more recent, actual estimate, puts it closer to $93 billion. And not once, but annually.
Stop being so gullible and falling for this sensationalized nonsense just because it confirms your biases.
Still seems like a pretty low number to me. The U.S. military budget request this year was 1.5 trillion dollars. Thats unusually high, but even at previous levels of 700-800 billion a year, that's chump change to take out of the U.S. military budget yearly.
Now if we all actually cared about world hunger 93 billion annually is a pretty small price to pay.
We should probably still try taxing them and not letting them commit crimes right?
Maybe we could even solve world hunger for 1 year, like to see if it's a good idea?
For those not doing the math - assuming a trillion dollars just gets dumped into a bucket labeled "world hunger" (because we as the world decide to start taxing millionaires, billionares, etc heavily), and assuming we'd need $93 million to eradicate it annually, we could eradicate world hunger for the next 10,752 years.
CORRECT! And THATS why I'm ok NOT Taxing Billionaires! Because if we CANT Solve something RIGHT NOW we should LET KIDS DIE while letting Billionaires BUY Countries instead!
People must starve somewhere for people like him having trillions
This reminded me of a subway take video I watched yesterday with a young lady in London. She focused on climate but I will expand.
We have solved all the worlds major problems. We have solved homelessness. We have solved hunger. We have solved climate change.
That is not the problem. The problem is the alternative to these things are too lucrative for people to implement.
Trillionaires cannot be allowed to exist. Now that there's one, all the rest of the Sociopathic Oligarchs are going to want to be trillionaires, too, so we'll face another round of ruthless profit squeezing to get there.
And they'll get even more arrogant and demanding, and when we finally deny them, they will form alliances, and start creating their own military. We will see it, and try and stop it, but MAGAs will defend them and run interference.
They will eventually claim a landmass somehow - buy it, steal it, conquer it - and become their own financially and militarily aggressive nation, and really start throwing their weight around.
It is absolutely imperative that we stop these mentally-ill financial hoarders. Their obsessive accumulation of money is suppressing the freedom of billions of people around the globe, and it will only get worse. They can't control themselves, they don't care at all about the damage they inflict, and they have no intention of slowing down. They can't, they are MENTALLY ILL. They need medical care, not be treated like visionary business people, and they certainly should not be given even more money by the government. It's like giving a drunk his own distillery, or handing a gambling addict his own casino.
And billionaires already look down on millionaires. Now trillionaires are going to look down their snooty noses at mere billionaires. Millionaires are now paupers.
The rest of us only have value as cheap slave labor, but once AI takes over, we won't even carry value as slaves. Then we'll just be in the way, consuming, demanding our rights, causing problems, demanding valuable things for free like food, water, air, medical care, housing, etc. We will become useless consumers of resources to people who see us as nothing more than ants, and we will be treated accordingly.
It is INEVITABLE.
Man, I thought Musk was obnoxious before, but now we will have to start saying “billionaires and trillionaires” instead of just “billionaires”. Maybe “Epstein class” sums it up?
How about Sociopathic Oligarchs?
But Yes, "Epstein Class" needs to be a permanent addition to the language.
just write it as >=billionaries
the world doesn't need anymore >=billionaires!
He is technically still also a billionaire. Having over 1,000 billions does not exclude one from that group. I feel disgusted even writing this comment.
Remember he is only this wealthy because other people are willing to buy a share of his money losing company at a highly inflated price.
He's going to be loaded onto one of his rockets to Mars whether it is ready or not by an angry mob someday. Or he's going to go into a bunker and never come out.
I wish more people had seen Don't Look Up so we could reference the ending at times like this.
Plus, the AI was actually right in the movie. We don't even get that.
I can't wait until these assholes all head to the big luxury resort on Mars.
Nobody sniffs their own farts a deeply and satisfyingly as a Sociopathic Oligarch, and it causes them to become arrogant on a mentally-ill level, and they are only getting worse. They will believe that their little Mars project for the ultra wealthy is the peak of human progress, but they will underestimate its dangers, both from the environment, and from outside forces.
Once they're up there, and we're down here, we can cut them off, and they'll be stuck up there. It will take decades for them to create a Mars-based economy to replace what they had on Earth. Without Earth dwellers to exploit, they'll start stealing from each other, causing their own class warfare.
And for every second they remain on Mars, they are at the mercy of an environment that is far more inhospitable that anywhere on Earth. If the dome gets breached, it is all over for them, and there will be constant attacks. Eventually one will succeed.
They can't to Mars soon enough.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
Not just kids. Anyone starving. Anyone in abject poverty. Anyone housebound because they can’t afford whatever medical help they need to have a life. It’s not just the kids. Billionaires suppress all of our abilities to get ahead.
... the system is a cunt
There fixed that for you.
"Spotted"
Dude was part of the group putting up the sign.
But he doesn't have a Trillion Dollars. He is, in theory, on paper, worth a Trillion Dollars.
If he tried to actually extract that wealth, the share price would plummet making him a measly billionaire.
If you look at what he has in real liquid wealth, it's less than a billion.
Yeah it's all smoke and mirrors. It's all valuations.
The issue though is that he can borrow against that. That's the real scam, and it's something we need to address. Loans backed by assets like stocks should get taxed as if it were a short term sale of the assets. Also cap how much stock you can use as collateral for loans. Or just ban using stocks as collateral in the first place. They want to spend? They need to sell, pay the taxes, and weigh the loss in voting power against their need for money
Outright banning using collateral for loans wouldn't work, even us plebs can do that and it has uses, like taking out a loan against your house. And if it's not stocks, its something else they have that's worth a lot or will loophole around into. They just need to tax collateralized loans or ban it after a certain amount.
edit: and if you get to the point that its taxed (if its at a threshold) then you got enough money to pay someone to figure it out and manage it.
I'm quite sure it's solely for clout. The timing was just right and the numbers lined up just so to produce that extra digit.
He's like that one dog at the barbecue who's just tall enough to snag a sausage from the buffet table while the humans weren't looking. This is now the part where he parades his pilfered prize and gloats for a few minutes too long. "Look what I've got". Don't give him the satisfaction!
That’s exactly the trick. The rich don’t become rich by selling their assets. They become powerful by never having to.
They pledge their stock as collateral, borrow against it, and live off debt instead of income. No sale means no capital gains tax. No liquidation means no crash in their holdings. Meanwhile, the underlying assets keep appreciating.
Their “paper wealth” may not be cash, but it buys access to virtually unlimited credit, and credit becomes power.
At that level, wealth isn’t about liquidity. It’s about leverage, and leverage is power.
He almost over leveraged himself with Twitter as the market was crashing, that would have been a sight to see if he hadn't derisked that and sold stock instead.
Headline: Musk buys twitter, but loses nearly all control of Tesla as margin call in crashing market wipes him out.
You could be both. He isn't, but it isn't impossible.
Letting children starve is generally thought of as a dick move when you have more than enough money to just pay to make that not happen.
Well, yeah. Trillionaires are definitely bad people. That isn't the question, though. The question is whether they can be visionaries at the same time. I submit that they can.
You're getting hung up on the wrong thing here.
In this context, a visionary is someone that can help lead humanity to a better way of life. Many of Musk's fans actually think this about him, that either his electric cars, his "ai", his "free speech platform", or his space program will somehow make the world a better place. All while ignoring his bigotry, his exploitation of humans and the environment, his political escapades which has resulted in countless deaths, and his collusion with Epstein. It is all a scam.
The richest person in the world also happens to be one of the worst.
CyberTruck, Grok, Xitter, Teslabots. Anything Elon has a personal hand in goes to shit. He has the eye for investing and marketing vaporware but visionary engineer is overdone tony stark pr bullshit.
Ask yourself this, how quickly would investor sentiment in his companies turn if he died tomorrow?
I specifically said that Elon Musk is not a visionary. He very clearly isn't. He's a moron who's been failing upward since he was born with emeralds in his pockets.
The only vaguely visionary bit about him is his dedication to building The Torment Nexus.

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