I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.
it's an IQ test. you've been told, your entire life, that if you accept the latest draconian tax increase everything will improve. the tax passes. everything — infrastructure, education, cost of living — gets worse. will you listen to the scorpion again?
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest aren’t dumb enough to actually think Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in cash waiting to be taxed.
They just think their followers are dumb enough to think that. And they are.
“If we liquidated this business that has created thousands of jobs and also promises to propel man to an interplanetary existence, we could give everyone a minimum-wage pay check for one month.”
I’ve yet to see a tweet that better exemplifies leftism than this.
I said it other times but it's worth repeating: SpaceX being so underestimated, to the point of being mocked even, was and still is their super power.
SpaceX waltzed right into the market and started eating everyone's launches unimpeded and each time when industry realized it was too late.
Starship becoming operational is right around the corner and SpaceX is once again being laughed at.
History is repeating itself.
SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time.
The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules.
So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.
The richest guy on Earth SHOULD be the guy making cutting edge cars and rockets instead of dudes who sell purses and perfumes or dudes who run investment firms or dudes who made Facebook.
If the federal government took 100% of Elon’s wealth, it would only fund the government for 52 days.
Then it’s gone, and there’s nothing left to take.
The problem isn’t trillionaires.