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.
If you're very concerned about extroardinary wealth leading to concentration of power in government, may I suggest a system of horizontal and vertical checks and balances, restricted to limited and enumerated powers?
Not caring about him wheeling six chicks at once when he was married is your choice
Not caring that he pretends to be a populist when he went to one of the richest prep schools in America is your choice
Not caring he went to war saying he always wanted to kill people is your choice
Not caring he went to work for Blackwater after serving and now calls the army very dumb and stupid is your choice
Not caring that he made fun of Purple Heart recipients is your choice
Not caring that he jerks off in porta potties is your choice
Not caring about all the shit he’s deleted on Reddit and he never thought would see the light of day and shows what a giant jackass is he is your choice
Not caring that he is a Nazi is your choice but if you support him and promote him don’t ever lecture anybody about the moral high ground again because you are a piece of shit
My father was a Special Forces operator with two tours in Vietnam and 20 years of service. To all those like my father, we all say thank you for your sacrifices. Without them we wouldn’t have the greatest country on Earth.
In case you’re wondering about the current state of House Democrats: they just voted against establishing a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Their objection? It didn’t include a dedicated wing for trans history.
You almost have to admire the consistency. They managed to turn a women’s museum into an argument about men.
This is a massive W in the column of MAGA world. I admire & got along with Thomas and his people for years but never understood how he could approach legislating like he did. Your job is to nudge everything to the right not make it easier for the left to capsize the movement.
If a Republican candidate proposed putting Jews in work camps it would be a national media story for days.
There is no version of America where rhetoric like this is acceptable.
Okay? MN shooter’s stated motive was an insane hallucination about the Dem governor ordering him murder people to facilitate the governor’s ambitions. And the guy who shot — not just shot at, *shot* — Trump had donated to a leftist group. And then he shot bullets at the Republican presidential nominee’s head.
I’m not saying these are clear cut examples of left-wing violence (there are many such examples, including last night, the evidence increasingly shows), but they’re certainly not examples of right-wing violence.
"Renee Good is not the same as Angel families."
Grieving mother Jen Heiling pushed back on comparisons between her late son and Renee Good.
Brady Heiling, 18, was killed along with his girlfriend when an illegal immigrant allegedly drove the wrong way while intoxicated.