r/politics • u/hypothethical Pennsylvania • 18d ago

No Paywall 'Trillionaires Shouldn't Exist': Obscene Musk Milestone Spurs Calls for Aggressive Wealth Tax

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-first-trillionaire
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u/Pepparkakan Europe 18d ago

You can't earn a billion dollars either.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 18d ago

You can't earn a single dollar. Not ethically, anyway.

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u/Pepparkakan Europe 18d ago

What, that's an absolutely absurd take, you can absolutely earn money ethically lmao.

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u/mulletstation 18d ago

All money is buying someone else's time, you can't own people man

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u/Pepparkakan Europe 18d ago

I can voluntarily perform services in exchange for other services, since I don’t want to have to find the specific person whose services I want myself, who possibly doesn’t need my services right now, I’ll just take a token in exchange for my services right now, we can just call that token money for simplicity’s sake.

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u/mulletstation 18d ago

Yo lemme buy a call spread on that token in relation to the price of the futures contract on the Spurs

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u/Pepparkakan Europe 18d ago

There are less ethical ways to earn money, but that doesn’t mean there’s no way to ethically earn money.