Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire has been a really great IQ test for the general public.
You see people online who think Elon literally has a trillion dollars sitting in a bank somewhere and has chosen to just… keep it there.
These are not serious people and not worth engaging with. It’s like trying to have an intelligent discussion with a monkey.
All pretence cast aside. A vicious attack on the Anti-Zionist movement by the British state acting for the Zionist regime in defence of genocide.
Shameful.
#FreeTheFilton4
@DissentFu Musk's wealth grew from a fraction of today's level to nearly a trillion dollars over the last decade. If your financial position didn't improve at all during the same period, the trillionaire isn't the explanation. He's the excuse.
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
@peterboghossian This is only possible with enablement. Those people are literally enabling that bloke to an ultimately excruciatingly painful death, preceeded by years of suffering.
@MrMulderUK@Tesco Tesco is really the pits and our supermarket of "last resort" now. We do 95% of our shopping at Lidl, Aldi and a smattering of M&S. Our local Tesco express is for the rare case where we've run out of milk and our 3x a week dairy delivery service falls on a wrong day.
Hey @tesco you’ve put the prices on this offer up 3 times in 12 months in my express store. Safe to say there are now many cheaper options so I won’t be shopping there again.
👋
@gghhooastt@benonwine This is nonsense and you're a muppet. Musk is South African by birth, but from a largely British-descended, English-speaking background. To claim he has "zero shared experience" with Britain is absurd. Being born in Africa doesn't make Musk and Mandela culturally interchangeable.
@benonwine You need an white skinned born and bred African to save Britain from Britain?
Someone with zero European shared experience or value for British culture.
You see why race is an optical illusion, you might as well be calling for Mandela’s help.
How the mighty have fallen
@lincslincs Why are British families paying 5x what families in the USA pay for electricity per kWh if we.are all operating in this alleged harmonised global market. Ed Milliband is a deeply dangerous fool and a threat to national energy security. He needs reigning in or firing (preferably)
Ed Miliband says high energy bills are caused by wars, global markets and events overseas.
So here's a simple question:
If we're all buying energy on the same global markets, why are British families paying double, and sometimes triple, what people in other countries pay?
You can only blame the rest of the world for so long. Eventually, you have to own your own policies.
@iamtomskinner Right now its probably a little overvalued. Let the hype valuation die off a bit then hoover up value. It's a phenomenal company with an amazing future so even if you get it a bit wrong now, you still get it right long term.
@CynicalPublius Bravo. All this incident has served to highlight is that most of our politicians (US and UK) are fucking economic and financial illiterates who don't understand the basics of operational company finance. More disturbingly these halfwits are in charge of our lives too...
“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.”
As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you:
1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in.
2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business.
3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail.
If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor.
So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.
I paid extra for 12A on an overnight flight specifically so I could lean against the wall and sleep. I get to my row, and there’s already a woman settled in my seat, eye mask pulled up on her forehead, sipping a complimentary water.
"Excuse me, I think you’re in 12A," I say, holding up my boarding pass.
She doesn't even look at it. "Oh, I’m in 12C. But I really get claustrophobic in the aisle. You don't mind swapping, right? It's the same row."
"Actually, I do mind. I specifically booked the window so I could sleep."
She sighs, the kind of heavy, dramatic sigh that implies I’m being the difficult one. "It’s a three-hour flight. Surely you can be a good Samaritan."
I keep my voice completely flat. "I’m not a good Samaritan. I’m a tired person who paid $45 extra for that exact headrest. Please move."
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
Today, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire.
It's a ridiculous amount of money for one person to be sitting on and comes as countless Americans are struggling to afford food, housing, and health care.
We need to tax wealth – immediately.
Say what you like, I stand with Keir Starmer.
100%
Quite simply, he is by far the best Prime Minister this country, the UK, has had for decades.
He is solid.
His motives, his ethics, are to be admired immensely - even in the face of such opprobrium from the MSM
Carry on Keir, I say.
All power to your elbow.
#StickWithStarmer#StarmerIsSolid@Keir_Starmer