No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
🇺🇸 A shirtless man in a kilt walked into a Taco Bell in Florida.
When someone called him a “meth head,” he took that personally: “N*ga, I’m a f**ing electrician.”
Moments later, he leaves and the power goes out.
@TalkinBaseball_ It would be a strain not a sprain technically. A sprain is tear in a ligament, tissue that connects bone to bone. This would be a tear and tissue that connects muscle to bone.
This guy got so annoyed with spam callers that he wrote a script that endlessly calls them back and plays Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on repeat until they finally block his number.