if I had a trillion dollars, I would use it to solve humanity’s biggest problems that aren’t profitable, such as climate change, space exploration… wait a second
John believes if you're not missing at least 10% of your flights, you're spending too much time at the airport.
"You have to be taking some level of risk, otherwise you're wasting time."
Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.
In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide
Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.
@DeepDishEnjoyer he’s proven himself to be staggeringly competent, no? I can’t really name anyone else who’s done this comparably difficult
is the problem that his P/E ratios are too high?
@sama chronic pain that we don’t understand well and for which we don’t have reliable cures
chronic headaches, nerve stuff, endometriosis are a few examples
Breaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. https://t.co/CgU9Prj0eT
It's too difficult for people to admit that there's now a tech stock larger than two of the Mag 7 firms, because then they'd have to admit they don't know what Broadcom does
@tenobrus motivated reasoning imo. elon wants to think that spacex is uniquely positioned for the AI race
he pretty consistently interprets all world problems as tesla or spacex-shaped problems. remember those thai kids stuck in a cave?