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๐จ BOOM! Scott Jennings just said what millions of Americans are thinking.
For hours, the same people who preach โequityโ and โfairnessโ have been obsessing over Elon Muskโs wealth instead of asking how he built it.
Think about it.
Electric vehicles.
Rocket launches.
Satellite internet.
Artificial intelligence.
Space exploration.
The man didnโt win the lottery.
He built companies that changed entire industries.
Since when did success become a crime in America?
Why are the people who claim to support innovation always attacking the innovators?
America became the greatest nation on earth because dreamers, builders, inventors, and entrepreneurs were rewarded for taking risks.
You donโt get to Mars by thinking small.
You donโt change the world by envying the people trying to build it.
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.