If California's billionaire wealth tax passes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would pay $8 billion dollars, per MorePerfectUnion.
His response: "I don't mind paying taxes."
This is what oligarchy looks like.
50 billionaires have spent $433 million to buy the elections in November.
80% is going to candidates who supported a $1 trillion tax break for the top 1% & a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act.
We must end Citizens United.
@sama you should feel humbled, you're building a tool that is better suited for others and there's nothing wrong with that being the case. Try to protect those future people if you find a way to
@eurofounder If this conversation ever happened (I don't think it did, sounds like ragebait), it'll make for an interesting conversation to have 10 years from now. Maybe because you're wrong, or maybe because you're right. Either way, you won't look back on it at it as being well informed
@elonmusk It's everyone's path to empowering the world at large, because immigrants bring in new ideas and spirits that we will always welcome. That means a greater risk that competing companies will outdo your work, it benefits you to eliminate competition from the best and brightest.
@elonmusk If AI solves the problem of mortality, I hope we can let a free speech consensus coincide with the universal distribution of life extending tech
@elonmusk This could have been a legitimately laugh-with-you-not-at-you funny joke, but you didn't take the extra effort. If you get in the habit of making that effort you might get better at it with less effort over time
Tesla is proposing a deal that could give Elon Musk $2 trillion in wealth, more than the bottom 59% of Americans combined.
Does anybody in America think this is sane?
Republicans are playing on the easiest difficulty and then shitting themselves with outrage when they hear some dialogue that hurts their delicate feelings.