Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.
Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.
Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.
Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.
Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”
O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.
Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.
A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.
Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.
In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.
The mandate was absolute.
Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”
One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.
But it went further than energy.
Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”
No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.
A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.
And none of this was hypothetical.
Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”
Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.
Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”
Zero.
Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.
Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.
Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”
Same government. Same decade. Same pen.
One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.
Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.
Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”
Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.
That’s not oversight.
That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.
We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.
Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.
Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.
And the entire time, the physics already worked.
The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.
They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.
Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.
All of it was a policy choice.
We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.
We let a committee outlaw the math.
🚨 JOHN BOLTON to plead GUILTY to illegally retaining classified documents
He and his mustache will have to pay a $2.25 MILLION, and faces up to 60 MONTHS in prison
This traitor is getting what he deserves.
An old man is at home on his death bed...
When suddenly he smells something amazing.
It's the smell of his favorite chocolate chip cookies.
And with his last strength, he gets out of bed, and he goes to the kitchen, where his wife of 50 years, is cooking these beautiful chocolate chip cookies.
A plate of four of them, just out of the oven.
And with his last human strength, he reaches over to take one of the cookies, and his wife sees him, she rushes over, she slaps his hand, and she says, "No, they are for your funeral."
Marriage Tip:
Every time you talk to your wife, remember that the conversation is being recorded in her head for training and quality purposes.
Anything you say will be stored, reviewed, and used as evidence at a later date!
"It's a dream come true."
Chad Camenzind, the father of Hannah & Lauren Camenzind, shares what it means to have his daughters playing for @HuskerSoftball in the Super Regionals.