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.
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.
SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.
SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.
Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.
The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.
Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.
Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.
Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.
Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.
We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
@repjimbaird Over 50,000 unidentified children are waiting for rescue. Urge Congress to move on the Renewed Hope Act to rescue children seen in abuse images. These children cannot wait!
Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!
Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!
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@GuyDealership Not surprising. That’s too much motor for how light S10s are in the back. I bet most of those accidents came during bad weather and lost traction - rain or snow.
This is not a difficult challenge. Here are my replies:
1. It's a man's maleness that makes it inappropriate for him to enter a women's restroom or lockerroom, not his appearance. A man who looks like a woman is still a man.
2. If the standard is appearance, most men who identify as women would fail the test. They typically look like ridiculous caricatures of women.
3. It's not a matter of letting them "be who they are" because they are not actually women. A woman is not "any person who wears a dress and puts on lipstick." A woman is an adult human female. If you are not female, you are not a woman.
4. If it's important to make people "feel more comfortable," then why should the comfort of a few be considered over the comfort of many? There are far more women who are uncomfortable with men entering their private spaces than there are dysphoric men who are frustrated by the denial of access.
5. The final point about how women should pee in the woods if they're uncomfortable contradicts the previous sentence. This is blatant lopsided concern for the comfort of the few at the expense of the many.
6. Reality is uncomfortable for people who dislike reality. But for the sake of sanity and safety, we should choose to live in reality, anyway. Truth matters more than anyone's comfort.
@A67475081@michael_esq1@CitizenFreePres There isn’t a large price difference between a Hyundai and Tesla. Honestly I’m not really sure why anyone would choose any other EV over a Tesla.
@dsnixx@pangbert1@TheLaurenChen That’s not how businesses work. They need actual revenue to cover costs and they can’t just pull money out of the stock market to pay expenses.