Elon Musk Isn’t a Threat to Society’s Health. All Billionaires Are

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[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know if I fully accept the article's premise. Those who take big risks should get big rewards should they succeed.

However, it is amusing see the left turn from cheerleading all the evil billionaires who run all the services they use, to now suddenly hating the idea that a single tech company might be owned and run by a billionaire. Who do they think created/owns/runs Facebook/Google/Microsoft/WaPo/etc? Even the businesses started by "poor" college kids out of their garage were still funded, and therefore effectively owned, by billionaires, and those poor college kids are mostly themselves billionaires now, if not multi-millionaires.

I can't tell if they're literally this stupid, or if it's some sort of subtle gas-lighting play.

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I can't tell if they're literally this stupid, or if it's some sort of subtle gas-lighting play.

I think some of both. I think it is gaslighting by the elites, and the majority of the people who read this crap are literally stupid enough to buy into it

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's just that Musk's finances have been saved by the US government (Tesla was close to bankruptcy). Also, Musk seems to be untouchable in the sense that if I were to do what he has done, I would go to prison for years.

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There will always be rich people no matter what you do. If you limit wealth or use taxes to curb it you're only changing the bar for what is considered rich.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

THe only reason we don't tax the living shit out of rich people is all the politicians they pay off to keep us down.