Elon Musk is about to become the world's first trillionaire, and you should know exactly what that means in human lives.
If SpaceX's planned IPO lands the way investors expect, Musk will personally hold roughly $1.11 trillion in wealth from Tesla and SpaceX alone.
To grasp the scale: if you spent a million dollars every hour, around the clock, it would still take you over a century to burn through a trillion.
Now consider what that pile could actually do.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates it would take about $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States. Musk's projected fortune could fund that for fifty-five years. Every veteran, every family in a shelter, every kid sleeping in a car. Off the street. For half a century.
The UN World Food Programme says ending world hunger by 2030 would cost roughly $40 billion a year. He could write that check for the next twenty-seven years and still have walking-around money left.
He could erase every penny of student debt held by the 20 million Americans under thirty-five, about $561 billion, and still have more than half a trillion sitting there.
He could fund universal Pre-K for every three- and four-year-old in America, at roughly $70 billion a year, for the next fifteen years.
He could do all of these things.
Instead the wealth just sits. Tied up in stock that produces nothing for the schoolteacher in Toledo, the nurse in Phoenix, the diabetic rationing insulin in Charlotte.
Paper riches built on workers who unionize and get fired, on government contracts paid by your taxes, on a tax code that lets him borrow against his shares instead of paying what a janitor pays.
A society that mints a trillionaire while one in seven American kids goes to bed food-insecure has not failed at math. It has succeeded at upward redistribution, and it's working exactly as designed.
The question isn't whether Musk earned it. The question is what kind of country lets one man hoard the cure for so many of our preventable wounds, and then calls it freedom.
@jeffster3141@krassenstein When you have a joker as the president, this is just little compared to what's to come ๐. If 'shameless' was a human being, HE IS DJT
This is so insanely corrupt, I canโt even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trumpโs $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And hereโs the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. Thatโs not a coincidence.
The White House wonโt even release the full donor list. Theyโre hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play canโt survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
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@elonmusk Seriously Musk, you are full of sh*t.
You're stirring up racist violence in the UK, for your own amusement.
Haven't you caused enough trouble in America?
You hang around with pedos, gutted USAID, promote alt-right racism, and have VERY unpleasant friends.
Sit down and shut up!
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Waiting taxpayer's money, shooting down a surveillance balloon, and creating a hoax off it to distract people from Epstein files.
That's how crazy whatever is in the files are.
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I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"
That's bullsh*t.
Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.
1. He's a Democrat
2. Because he's half Black
When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance โ unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.
Then we can't forget the unforgivable โ tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.
Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.
Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.
Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.
Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.
Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."
Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.
Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.
Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.
Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.
Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.
Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.
Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.
Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.
Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.
Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.
Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.
Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.
Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."
Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.
Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.
Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.
Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.
Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.