Mr B

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google's IPO created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's did about the same. SpaceX just created 4,400, with 400 of them above $100 million each.

The structural reason matters more than the feel-good stories.

Companies that stay private for decades usually concentrate the upside in VCs and founders. By the time regular employees get liquid, the 100x already happened on someone else's cap table. SpaceX stayed private for 24 years, the longest run to a mega IPO in history, and routed that compounding into payroll. Stock grants at every level, plus share purchases through paycheck deductions, down to welders and cafeteria staff.

Run the math on what that meant. SpaceX was valued around $12 billion in early 2015. The IPO priced it at $1.77 trillion. That's 147x in 11 years, roughly 57% annualized. A welder buying shares with $200 paycheck deductions compounded at a rate most funds never touch once.

The part people gloss over: this was financing, and the workforce carried real risk. In 2008 the company was weeks from bankruptcy after three failed Falcon 1 launches. Below-market salary plus rocket startup equity was a terrible deal in every timeline where the rockets kept blowing up. For two decades the employees were, collectively, one of SpaceX's largest investors.

Thousands of startups pay in equity. Almost all of that paper expires worthless. This bet only paid because the company survived 24 years, landed the rockets, and went public at the largest valuation in IPO history.

4,400 people just got paid for holding through every one of those filters. The factory floor was the venture capital.

[Mr B @Brathap]

@heyshrutimishra @mehdirhasan @lewis_goodall as much you guys hate on @elonmusk you have to give him credit for this.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Ffs 🤣

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Each person with his own boss.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

New footage has emerged in the killing of seven-month-old Palestinian Sam Abu Haikal in the occupied West Bank.

The video appears to show the family's car slowing to a stop before an Israeli soldier opens fire.

Sky's @AdamParsons reports ⬇️

Latest: https://t.co/cjyZPzIyeA

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.

[Mr B @Brathap]

@Berry_cooool Auto

[Michael Mongie @MikeMongie]

Arsene Wenger explained what just happened with Ibrahima Konate back in May 2025. Real Madrid are signing top players on free transfers regularly despite having the money to pay big fees.

They did it with Trent Alexander-Arnold and they've now done it again with Konate. If you think Konate is being totally honest about not knowing he would be leaving Liverpool, you've got another thing coming.

He was supposedly in talks with Liverpool for over a year and a half and couldn't find an agreement, but then days after announcing he's leaving, Madrid reach a verbal agreement with him. Sure.

Anyway, Wenger said this to beIN Sports in May 2025: “I believe that it [Trent transfer] shows the trend of transfers now, and it shows a new trend in the game.

“There is no transfer anymore for the big, big players. They go all at the end of their contract because the wages are so high that [if] you want to buy Marcel [Desailly] today you have to give him so much money that you cannot pay the transfer anymore.

“So what do the big clubs do? They say two years before the end of a contract we want to buy you, we give you these wages and we will try to make an offer to the club.

“If it doesn’t work, we come back next year and if it doesn’t work then, we will take you for free. That is what they [Real Madrid ] did with [Kylian] Mbappe as well.”

[Mr B @Brathap]

@marclou How do you guys market what you are building? Everyone has ideas but it’s about getting it in front of consumers and I dong know if there’s a way to do that with volume that gives returns.

[Mr B @Brathap]

@IndieBeaverHere @radomir_3 @jackfriks @levelsio I have ideas but marketing is not my strong point. Is it possible to build without showing your face? How do you guys market what you are building ?

[UB1UB2 West London (Southall) @UB1UB2]

Finsbury Park yesterday. The dhol carrying the chants, the whole street in step with it.
Arsenal’s first Premier League title in 22 years, and London did what London does.

[MO'MEN @GoatMo_]

قصة ويستهام مع مويس تخليك تاخد بالك انت بتتمني ايه اصلا

من سنتين فقط جماهير ويستهام كانت بتطالب برحيل مويس في كل ملعب و كل أسبوع وكأن الرجل بيدمر النادي رغم أن الفريق وقتها كان مركز ثامن

الراجل خدهم يكسبوا أول بطولة أوروبية في تاريخهم الحديث، وكان دايما يخلي الفريق تنافسي في الدوري رغم جودة التشكيلة المحدودة

شالوا مويس… وبعدها لوبتيجي، بوتر، نونـو وفي الآخر هبوط بعد 14 سنة في البريمييرليج

والسيناريو السينمائي الحقيقي إن مويس نفسه فشل يكسب توتنهام مع إيفرتون في الجولة الأخيرة… والنتيجة دي كانت سبب هبوط ويستهام

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument.

Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts.

Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about.

The NHS was broken by underfunding.
Housing was broken by austerity.
Wages were crushed by corporate greed.

Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.

[The Independent @Independent]

Farage accounts ‘not consistent’ with claim he paid for £1.4 million house with I’m A Celeb fee https://t.co/YOl4FmFpmz

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

You see the hypocrisy of these people?
She makes me ill.

[David @Zero_4]

Isabel Oakeshott on Nigel Farage buying a £1.4m house: “I honestly don’t see why it’s anyone’s business. Why should people know how he paid?”

Isabel Oakeshott on Angela Rayner buying a 2nd home: “I smell a massive rat. How on earth has she raised the money to buy a £800k flat?”

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Imagine these were two blindfolded Israeli women.

Imagine Hamas militants had taken this picture.

Imagine those women had then disappeared.

Imagine the deafening outrage and denunciations of Hamas’ evil.

So where is the deafening outrage here?