Elon is a CEO… just saying.
I really hope he doesn't threaten to gut people's retirement funds and gets shot for it. That would be terrible.
Oh I know, getting shiot would just be totally ^not^ necessary.
(I curse a lot so "shot" got autocorrected to shit. Then I tried to fix it on my mobile. I got there eventually!)
Oh I thought you were being sneaky ;)
Yes, he spent the equivalent of ~$105 if you make $100,000/year. If you make $100,000, spending $100 to buy the government? You'd be dumb not to.
Which is why billionaires shouldn't be a thing.
Id argue the bigger issue is that money has the ability to influence politics at all. We need to remove it completely.
And it's a fraction of what his corporations received from the federal government in various grants, contracts and subsidies. I'm sure he'll earn all of that back when his government efficiency office privatises everything to companies he runs.
which is .074% of his net worth. Bought himself a good 4+ year return.
250000000/337300000000*100
Musk is worth about $234bn, so it's closer to 0.001% of his net worth
Elon Musk could lose, spend, and / or give away 99% of his net worth and still be a multi-billionaire.
And now he's in charge of directing government funds to his companies (for "efficiency").
Swamp drained!!
Pretty much pocket change for him. We allowed people to get so wealthy that they can buy their way into power wherever and whenever they want and they are reaping the benefits writ large.
More importantantly he bought Twitter.
So can we find the people he paid to vote for fat donnie?
Lovely how so many lefties bought Tesla's, which means that indirectly they funded Trump's election
Lovely how any of that shitbis legal
I'm not clicking that. What's the story? He did the thing he said he was doing?
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