The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
But
They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza on his epic 4th-down rushing TD:
“I had to go airborne. I’ll die for my team. If they need me to take shots — the front or the back, whatever it is — I’ll die for my team out there.”
This is an epic interview. 🔥🔥
Kirby Smart on Auburn timeout/clapping controversy:
"(Auburn) are clapping! So I told (the refs) before the game, 'If these guys clap, it's a penalty.'
"They can't clap because we'll false start.
"I've lost games on that before, in this stadium."
Bill Maher: “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christians of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”
George Floyd dies during an arrest:
$2+ BILLION of property damage
200 federal buildings damaged
2,000+ police officers injured
At least 25 Americans kiIIed
Charlie Kirk kiIIed in cold bIood:
0 rioting, 0 looting, 0 injuries
Peaceful vigils and prayer
$0 in property damage
0 Americans kiIIed
WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME.
Erika Kirk: "[Our daughter said] 'Mommy, I missed you.' I said, I missed you too. She goes, 'where's daddy?' She's 3."
"I said, 'Baby, daddy loves you so much. He's on a work trip with Jesus, so he can afford your blueberry budget.'"
😭💔
President @realDonaldTrump sounding very optimistic about a deal to end the war, and clearly putting huge effort into it. Bizarre to see so many people seemingly willing him to fail. The world should be supporting his determination to forge peace, not mocking it.
2024 Elizabeth Warren: Jerome Powell needs to cut interest rates.
2025 Elizabeth Warren: Trump needs to stop calling for Jerome Powell to cut interest rates