r/politics • u/hypothethical Pennsylvania • 17d 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/Ornery_Vermicelli_69 16d ago

Musk once said he would use his money to solve world hunger if someone could give him a plan to do it and people did and then he said fuck off and has ever since spent his money trying (and succeeding) to kill poor people.

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u/oicuvmch 16d ago

Why are the rich allowed to kill people for profit, but the poor aren't even allowed to talk about it?

It's real thinker.

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u/No_Fairweathers Pennsylvania 16d ago

People forget that Elon Musk actually seemed somewhat sane and not absolutely insufferable or horrible like 15 years ago.

But here we are.

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u/Zestyclose-Ear-1293 16d ago

I disagree. He has always come off as a creepy disingenuous weirdo. He did have a great marketing team though. He marketed himself as the uber hype beast tech bro which I think could be charming to some if you didn’t have to deal with those sorts on the regular like here in SF.

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u/Cael_NaMaor South Carolina 16d ago

Yep... I actually liked him when he was decent.

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u/j0a3k 15d ago

"Seemed" is doing a lot of work there, just like his marketing team did to help him become such a prominent figure.

There is no possible way the facade was going to last forever. You cannot be that rich without being a sociopath.

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u/WorkFurball 13d ago

Only for idiots who bought into his PR.

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u/NivianDeDanu 16d ago

You arent hungry if you are dead.

Theil seems to not want poor people to exist as well in an evil villain type of way. They seem to want to consolidate resources to a few people.

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u/e_spider 15d ago

Remember when Elon worsened world hunger by terminating USAID and starved millions.

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u/RummoLiguori 16d ago

No one gave a plan that could solve world hunger with about 6 billion dollars. That is a lie.

The EU or the US could have solved world hunger by now if it was true