Una presentadora multimillonaria exige a Elon Musk que done su fortuna... Quedo destrozada con la respuesta que le dieron.
«¿Qué hace Elon Musk con su dinero? Va a ser trillonario. Podría salvar países enteros. ¿Lo va a hacer? No. ¿Es que crees que vas a vivir para siempre, Elon?
—Un par de apuntes, Joy. Menos del 0,1% del patrimonio de Elon es dinero en el banco. El 99,9% restante son acciones y propiedad de sus empresas: SpaceX, Tesla y otras.
Esas empresas han creado más de 160.000 empleos directos, 600.000 indirectos y 500.000 más inducidos. Al menos 1 millón de personas en el mundo ponen pan en su mesa gracias a ellas.
Tú, en cambio, tienes 30 millones de dólares. No has creado empleos. Y casi todo tu dinero está listo para gastarse.
¿Vas a vivir para siempre, Joy? ¿Por qué no regalas TÚ tu dinero? Con un tercio podrías alimentar a 3.000 personas un año entero.
¿Cuándo empieza tu donación?»
Why are everyday Chinese people actively paying money to hide their nationality just to survive international travel?
A striking trend on Taobao shows Chinese travelers secretly purchasing fake US, Japanese, and Taiwanese passport covers to disguise their identity abroad. In fact, one particular US passport cover listing has sold close to 5 million units. As international backlash intensifies over the CCP's aggressive foreign policies, ordinary Chinese citizens are resorting to passport camouflage to navigate borders safely.
In tourist destinations like Japan, these novelty covers are used to blend in and escape rising anti-regime sentiment. Meanwhile, in high-corruption developing nations, Chinese tour groups have become frequent targets for predatory police extortion and bribe schemes, a harsh reality that travelers backed by a powerful US passport rarely have to face.
The irony is undeniable. While Beijing constantly boasts about its global dominance, its own people feel safer pretending to be from democratic nations like the US, Japan, or Taiwan just to travel in peace.
#China #Taiwan #USPassport #TravelHacks #Taobao #Geopolitics #IndoPacific #NationalSecurity #PassportPrivilege
Viral Xinjiang Milk Scandal: Popular ‘pure milk’ brand Maiquer caught using illegal additive (propylene glycol) to fake sweetness and aroma.
Chinese netizens are raging online, stating that they will not trust another local brand anymore. Even the so called most trustworthy brand have this issue.
From the 2008 melamine baby formula disaster that killed infants to this latest betrayal – why do so many Chinese parents desperately buy formula from Hong Kong, Australia, Europe, and beyond?
Because domestic trust is gone.
Japan spent 17 years developing its premium “Red Princess” citrus, priced at ¥500 each. Just months after launch, Chinese sellers flooded Taobao with stolen saplings grown in China.
When confronted, one Chinese farmer smirked on camera: “Don’t you also hope that Chinese people can eat delicious fruit?
Ehime farmers and officials are left heartbroken and powerless.
Why does the media give nonstop coverage to a 16-year-old reading from a script, but completely ignore a real climatologist with over 140 scientific papers who calls climate change a hoax? This is media manipulation. 😡🤡
#MediaBias
The moment someone tells you Elon Musk should solve world poverty with his wealth, you're listening to someone who fundamentally misunderstands both wealth and poverty. Musk's billions exist almost entirely as Tesla and SpaceX stock, not cash sitting in a vault waiting to be redistributed.
The real issue runs deeper than liquidity. Poverty is fundamentally a productivity problem, not a resource shortage. If throwing money at poverty solved it, the $4.3 trillion the US government has spent on welfare programs since 1965 would have eliminated American poverty decades ago. Instead, the poverty rate has remained virtually unchanged since the War on Poverty began.
You can't redistribute your way out of poverty because wealth isn't a fixed pie that rich people hoard. Musk created his fortune by building companies that produce electric vehicles, rockets, and satellite internet. His wealth represents the market's valuation of those productive assets. When politicians demand he liquidate those holdings to fund welfare programs, they're demanding he destroy the very capital that generates ongoing prosperity.
The countries with the lowest poverty rates didn't achieve that through foreign aid or wealth transfers. South Korea went from Third World to First World status in two generations through property rights, free markets, and rule of law. Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa has received over $1 trillion in foreign aid since 1960 and remains impoverished. Poverty reduction requires institutions that enable production, not redistribution schemes.
Real poverty reduction happens when entrepreneurs like Musk build productive enterprises that create jobs, generate tax revenue, and drive down costs through innovation. But that requires you to understand that capitalism creates wealth rather than just moving it around.
McDonald's announced they're replacing cashiers with kiosks in California just after the $20 minimum wage kicked in. Shocking to absolutely no one who understands basic economics. When you artificially price labor above its market value, employers find substitutes. Machines, automation, or they simply eliminate positions entirely.
The teenagers who desperately need that first job experience? Gone. The single mother trying to re-enter the workforce after years away? Priced out by someone with more skills. You've just created a legal barrier that prevents the least skilled workers from competing on the one thing they had going for them: willingness to work for less while they build experience.
Politicians pat themselves on the back for "helping workers" while unemployment among young minorities hits double digits. The workers who keep their jobs benefit (temporarily), but the invisible victims, those who never get hired in the first place, don't make headlines. Economics doesn't care about your good intentions.