Correct: SpaceX is 24 years old ..it’s not a new company. It’s not a Trump company. Tesla is 22 years old. Elon Musk employs more than 150,000 people. They buy homes, they pay taxes, they drive cars, they educate their children, they donate to charity. It’s easy to fixate on the extraordinary wealth Musk has created for himself , but that’s a small part of the story . Calculate the wealth and economic stimulation he has created , and that doesn’t factor the leaps in innovation he has brought to the world .
I wonder why @elonmusk, who is Canadian, decided not to build his civilization-changing, historic-levels-of-wealth-creating companies in Canada?
It will remain a mystery.
You don’t have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us.
A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated.
Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we’re not quite ready for that.
Elon bought my house, and pays the mortgages of over 20,000 employees. We collectively pay tens of billions in taxes. He made his own money and works his arse off, he’s not on a yacht, he’s working. Newsom stole his money OFF US. I know who I prefer! 🤷♂️
@CraigSauve He literally is the best steward of capital and is changing the world. Only socialists that think that people do it for the money because for socialists everything is about money and luxury.
Elon Musk just created a windfall of $12 billion USD for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, thanks to their investment in SpaceX.
That’s nearly $17,000,000,000 CDN.
The communists who run the union will still complain about him.
This reads like a screed by a Marxist undergrad in a campus paper.
There is no way the editors of the Globe thought it was a meritorious piece.
Was it run because the “eat the rich” tag line would max engagement? Is the Globe now trolling us with clickbait?
Or do the Globe’s editors also want to incite hatred of their massively wealthy proprietors?
@RoKhanna@BernieSanders He's literally the best steward of capital and works more than you!! He literally doesn't do it for the money. Socialists are so greedy they think everyone does it for money just like them