@DissentFu I am 43 years old. Single parent household, drug/alcohol/physical abuse in the household, moved six times through my youth. Finished HS, went to college, got a career. Paid off student loans, employer healthcare for my family, healthy 401K savings. Not upset about a trillionaire.
>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE
@LucasBotkin Hey @lucasbotkin, I strongly recommend the book “Slaying Leviathan.”. Terrific discussion on the role of protestant principles in the founding documents through the sovereign right to defend self and property.
“[T]o obey a tyrant is to rebel against God.”
-Goodman
@fox32news What if we could quantify the amount of government waste and fraud?
What if it was enough to improve the budget, reduce taxes, and keep the Bears? 🤔
@Betsycashmoney If a land owner rents the land, who pays the taxes?
The taxes/expenses are passed down to the renter.
Am I missing something?
Is this a parody account?
@HarebrainedInc Citadel could have stayed.
Boeing could have stayed.
Caterpillar could have stayed.
The Bears could have stayed.
Net outflow of IL over last 4 years is 280K residents that could have stayed.
But, the management of IL has been terrible.
That’s why they left.
@HarebrainedInc Citadel could have stayed.
Boeing could have stayed.
Caterpillar could have stayed.
The Bears could have stayed.
Net outflow of IL over last 4 years is 280K residents that could have stayed.
But, the management of IL has been terrible.
That’s why they left.
@MikeGrinnell_ This is a business decision - plain and simple. Taxes in Chicago, Cook county, and IL are bonkers and only going to get works.
Chicago taxes already went up. Going up again once an $830M loan goes into repayment. MASSIVE expense for the Bears.
The Bears are moving to Indiana for the same reason Bears fans move and why Caterpillar, Citadel, Boeing and so many more moved too: the government here is out to milk taxpayers, not serve them. The ruling Dems have a thuggish woke mindset: take, take, take, and look down on us in the process. Yet, our schools don’t teach, it’s dangerous in Chicago and event the suburbs now and the roads suck pretty much everywhere. They raised their own pay, they pass garbage in the middle of the night and they obviously care more about illegal immigrants than Americans — and you know property taxes (already among the highest) are going up, up, up #pritzkersucks. @ChicagoContrar1@Awake_IL@IlliniJen@chiIIum@ILGOP@ThomasDeVore76@elonmusk
@SethAbramson The Bears, as a business entity, are making a financial decision.
Sales taxes in Chicago/cook went up 33% this year.
Property taxes are going to go insane once loan repayments start on the $830M loan taken out by the City.