@HearGene@JillMarinelli1 I am sure it's kind of like vote buying given his and Labor's support from large parts of the Indian community in Australia. Their immigration policy is structured to harvest as many votes for the Australian Labor Party as possible.
@davidjamieson10@RitaPanahi What are the latest polls again. How is Albo and the Socialist left going at the moment. Popularity going in reverse and getting worse. Sky seems to be more in touch with the Zeitgeist than your ABC or the Guardian readership.
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
These two wrote an article called The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk fell into history yesterday as the world’s first trillionaire.
“Journalists.” 🤡
.@ScottJenningsKY just torched the liberal meltdown over Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire:
“All day long, I've been listening to liberals, count and spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success. Why is it immoral? Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our capitalist system, in the greatest nation on earth, to go out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world, all the things he's doing? Why is any of this wrong or bad? Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we want to discourage anybody building anything?”
Exactly. Success isn't a crime.
@AngusTaylorMP Albanese is proud of his modest background and even more modest achievements. He's proud of never having had a real job that created wealth for our country. He's proud of shrinking the national pie and carving small and smaller slices.
I’m proud of my background. And it doesn’t surprise me one bit that Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers want to punish people for getting ahead.
I believe that if you work hard, you should be able to get ahead and pass those opportunities on to your children.
That’s the Australia I want to see.
@mirandadevine That was in February this year. A homeless German woman killed by an insane Moroccan. That's horrific but should not be presented as if it's just happened after the Irish attack.
The harder you work, the harder it is to get ahead. This is life under Anthony Albanese.
We have a plan to restore our standard of living and protect our way of life.
Lower taxes. More homes. Cheaper energy. Migration linked to housing supply. Putting Australians first.
Jane Hume and Mark Butler have clashed over the ‘privileges’ of permanent residents.
The fiery debate followed revelations that one in five beneficiaries (approximately 51,000 people) of the Home Guarantee Scheme since 2022 are non-citizens. This access was made possible after the Labor party altered the rules in 2023 to expand eligibility from Australian citizens to include permanent residents.
@tegviews2@mirandadevine@MrAndyNgo It's the victims versus oppressors theme gang. Tell me this lot doesn't have a lot of grievances and see themselves as victims. Looking at them they probably hate normal people and for obvious reasons
The govt is spending $45m of your money researching ways to stop birds flying into giant windmills and being sliced to shreds.
One solution: build the windmills higher!
You can’t hate this moronic, profligate govt enough.
@StudLeeMD I am surprised she even has that. I thought her only qualification was learning how to play dirty in the Union Movement like most of her absolutely useless colleagues.
@PaulineHansonOz The Guardian is bizarre and actually hates Australian society and our institutions. I guess most of its staff have some kind of imagined grievances and all have chips on their shoulders. Sad really