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

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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

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@Jackaloftheazuresand If you are refering to me I plan to stick around as long as I can to annoy the greedy and the unscrupulous anyway I can ha ha.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@badminton well that's just greedy of you

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@Jackaloftheazuresand You can't get rid of me that easy! Or my two-fisted pals Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Franklin Roosevelt, Bernie Sanders.

"A working class hero is something to be."

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@badminton You spend your money on an internet connection when there are actual people starving in this very moment, people who will be dead tomorrow. What are you doing for them if your plans bare no immediate fruit, all you aspire to is saving future poors but do nothing for those in the most critical positions when you are perfectly capable of doing so. Who did you feed today beside yourself, how much excess are you currently in possession of. For as much as the middle likes to go after the top if they all really cared themselves and gave unto their own necessity they too could solve the world's problems but they don't because they exist on luxuries they refuse to part with as well. It's really no different, you just have a better sounding excuse.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@Jackaloftheazuresand "Judge not less you be judged."

I think in my own small way I contribute to the common good. And there are millions like me. When we get together we can do a lot. What's why even in my 80's I'll be manning the barricades, even if I have to do it from a wheelchair. As my mother used to say, "Feed the needy not the greedy."

Another quote, "There's something in their eyes that's lacking. What they need is a damn good whacking."

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.