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Elon Musk is the richest person on Earth, with a net worth estimated at $214.1 billion.*

By the way, that’s up almost $20 billion from just two months ago.

And he’s going to be even richer, because his car company, Tesla, just approved a $48 billion pay package for him. These dollar amounts are simply absurd. Nobody needs that much money. Nobody deserves that much money. Nobody is “worth” that much more than the rest of us.

Tell Elon Musk:

You already have far more money than anyone could ever need. Asking for $48 billion *more* is downright pathological. You should self-impose a 100% tax on your Tesla pay package and give the entire $48 billion to the U.S. Treasury so the federal government can use it to help everyday Americans.

Go to Public Citizen. Sign a petition. While you're at it send them a few bucks if you can.

https://act.citizen.org/page/69159/petition/1
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
You're nearly 70, at this point it's all downhill for you so you may as well die and leave some resources for the rest of us. Nobody needs to live that long anyway. Just think how much more good you could do if you just died and donated the contents of your bank account instead of burning through it needlessly extending your life pretending this activism will go anywhere. Face it, your usefulness is in the past so the best thing you can do is move aside for someone younger.

Isn't it a joy when someone else decides what you've earned and isn't it grand when they decide you have too much
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
@badminton You could suffer to do more
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@Jackaloftheazuresand So could you.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
@badminton It's only a criticism for you because I don't see myself as a "hero." As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't saving everyone then you are saving no one because you value one human over another purely by a circumstance such as the time they exist. There is no altruism in that, just a masquerade shrouded by self deception.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I couldn't care less about his wealth.
Nor his pursuance in rocket ships and whatever that's about.

What bugs me is how those with power and influence hang on his every word !

Same with people like Bill Gates.
Create a lot of rubbish that you then hire 'bug fixers' to sort out.
Essentially Create and dominate a market for your product that sees 2/3+ of the planet's population buy and use over 30 years.
And then pursue your ideas on (essentially) eugenics in the third-world as a 'cure' for man's ills....
Zaphod42 · 46-50, M
Damn…with just 0.5% of his net worth, me and every one I know could retire comfortably.
HumanEarth · 56-60, F
Give me 1 billion of that

1 million for me and the rest for homeless
You expect the government to hand money to the citizens?

Don't know or really care about the pay package. A huge amount of this kind of wealth is in company valuation, last time I looked at Tesla stock(admittedly a few years ago)it was still a cash consuming company. Maybe it's changed, I don't know or really care
justanothername · 51-55, M
He is the definition of Egotistical.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
The last place anyone should want any money to go to is to government coffers. Starve the government don't feed it. It could spend all of Musk's money in the twinkling of an eye and no one would be better off.
rhouse · 56-60, M
I totally agree with your statement but I think I am the richest man on earth. I have a wonderful wife and we have a lot of fun. I have great kids, and I am only worth a bit less than him...ok a lot less.
and give the entire $48 billion to the U.S. Treasury so the federal government can use it to help everyday Americans.


Nah, definitely not. It should go to a charity where the funds would actually be used usefully.
Well, he in particular is very over-valued, bc he has stolen others' work...
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
I very much doubt he has 214 billion dollars
Workerbee · 31-35, M
Tesla stock really shouldn’t have gone up during their last earnings call I’m still really mad about that..
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