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Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. This needs to be a wake up call.

There is no way a single person can spend a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.

My thoughts on Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

If we tax AI, we can use that money to build a country that works for everyone. Where healthcare is treated as a human right. Where every American is guaranteed a good job. Where education isn’t a privilege reserved for the wealthy. That’s why I’m fighting to tax AI.

The wake up call is for you, Senator. You have spent 30 years in government. Name one thing you built. One product, one service, one system that works. You can't. Your entire career consists of redistributing value created by others, and lecturing the people who create it. Elon built reusable rockets for less than what Washington spends in 3 hours. The government you represent spends $7 trillion a year and can't balance a budget, fix a border, or build a train. He did 100 times more with 100 times less. A trillionaire who earned it by serving billions of customers is not a problem. A bureaucrat who never created a dollar of value deciding how value should be allocated, that's the problem. The era of the builder is here. You can keep tweeting from the back seat of your government car, or you can step aside and watch. History remembers the people who build. It footnotes the ones who taxed them.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. This needs to be a wake up call.