🤣 Calling Elon Musk a failure while he runs multiple companies that are advancing electric vehicles, AI, neuroscience, global internet access, and space exploration is absurd. You may dislike him personally, but reducing his accomplishments to “he got lucky” ignores the most extraordinary entrepreneurial track record in modern history.
@glowwdup If creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, paying billions in taxes, advancing sustainable transportation, restoring communication for paralyzed patients, and making humanity multiplanetary is “profoundly immoral,” then we’ve completely lost the meaning of the word.
Elon Musk’s salary is literally $0. His wealth is tied up in ownership of companies that employ hundreds of thousands of people, pay billions in taxes, build EVs, reusable rockets, global internet networks, AI systems, and medical technologies. The fact that people still confuse net worth with salary says more about our economic literacy than it does about Musk.
Let that sink in
It’s strange that the person creating reusable rockets, global internet access, EVs, brain implants that help the blind and paralyzed, and technologies that could extend human civilization is treated as the problem. Child poverty is a serious issue, but innovation isn’t the reason it exists. The world is better off because people like Elon Musk build things.
.@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.
The fact that 1 in 3 Americans struggle to afford healthcare is a serious issue, but it’s not because Elon Musk built successful companies.
Most Americans aren’t creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, advancing electric vehicles, launching satellites, providing global internet access, developing brain-computer interfaces, or pushing humanity toward becoming a multi-planetary species.
You’re comparing the wealth generated from creating enormous value to the economy with a completely separate problem caused by decades of government policy failures. The two aren’t the same thing.
If anything, Elon Musk’s companies have improved millions of lives and contributed massively to economic growth. Blaming innovators for systemic problems is elementary thinking that ignores the real causes.
@Heccles94 Imagine rooting against the guy whose companies are restoring sight to the blind, giving paraplegics a way to communicate with their minds, accelerating sustainable energy, and working to extend the light of human consciousness beyond Earth.
That’s a strange hill to die on.
The wealth created by entrepreneurs and innovators isn’t money sitting idle—it’s capital that funds new technologies, creates jobs, lowers costs, and improves lives. Taxing innovation more aggressively doesn’t create prosperity; it risks slowing the very progress that makes prosperity possible.
@Rep_Grijalva Imagine rooting against the guy whose companies are restoring sight to the blind, giving paraplegics a way to communicate with their minds, accelerating sustainable energy, and working to extend the light of human consciousness beyond Earth.
That’s a strange hill to die on.
@RepMcGovern@elonmusk Imagine rooting against the guy whose companies are restoring sight to the blind, giving paraplegics a way to communicate with their minds, accelerating sustainable energy, and working to extend the light of human consciousness beyond Earth.
That’s a strange hill to die on.
@Heccles94 If confiscating wealth solved hunger, it would’ve been solved long ago. Elon didn’t pull a trillion dollars out of a vault—he built companies that produce EVs, rockets, satellite internet, AI, and medical technology. Get a clue
@ZacksJerryRig@elonmusk@Tesla Interesting that a guy whose entire brand is built on tearing things apart for views is suddenly worried about Tesla owners. Maybe if stress and outrage generated hair follicles as efficiently as Elon generates companies, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
The wealth created by entrepreneurs and innovators isn’t money sitting idle—it’s capital that funds new technologies, creates jobs, lowers costs, and improves lives. Taxing innovation more aggressively doesn’t create prosperity; it risks slowing the very progress that makes prosperity possible.
It boggles my mind how someone of your intelligence can hold public office and still believe taxing innovation is the path to prosperity. AI isn’t a piggy bank—it’s a tool that can increase productivity, lower costs, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve quality of life for millions. Taxing it before we’ve fully realized its potential is like taxing electricity in its infancy.
It boggles my mind how someone of your intelligence can hold public office and still believe taxing innovation is the path to prosperity. AI isn’t a piggy bank—it’s a tool that can increase productivity, lower costs, accelerate medical breakthroughs, and improve quality of life for millions. Taxing it before we’ve fully realized its potential is like taxing electricity in its infancy.