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Musk has stock options that he has to buy and he doesn't get a salary. He said he doesnt own houses or yachts and he works all the time. He's spending it on mak

Musk has stock options that he has to buy and he doesn't get a salary. He said he doesnt own houses or yachts and he works all the time. He's spending it on making humans interplanetary. Of all the billionaires to bitch about, Musk is clearly many standard deviations more industrious and capable than any of us, surely if there is financial allocation it should go to those who merit it the most? Would you prefer to have our lives set up in any other way?

BunsanSpace 6y ago
He mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast about owning 5 mansions and what he liked about each one. he's not humble in anyway, looking at his twitter he comes off as a real twat to boot as well.
zpeti 6y ago
It doesn't matter any more unfortunately. Anyone with a billion dollars is now evil. There can't possibly be anything positive about a rich person. Oh America, how you have fallen.
- StillBored 6y ago
  Personally I think Musk is more in the "accidental" billionaire category than many of them (by that I mean his wealth is heavily volatile with a lot of risk, and was hard to predict). That said, most of these billionaires have gotten there because they were able to abuse some part of the capitalistic society. The "quality product for a fair price" bit is warped in some way due to monopoly power, exploiting their workers, etc. Which is why a lot of people really dislike the Waltons, Bezos, etc billionaires. Its hard to answer why they should benefit so hugely when they could have cut into their wealth a little and given their employees a working wage, or slightly better benfits, etc. Instead they have created massive generational wealth gaps where their children/etc will effectively be royalty, and then cynically used propaganda to even neuter the government/financial system from ever re-leveling the playing field. And what for, so they can have tens of billions instead of tens of millions while something like 50% of the population lacks even basic healthcare, or for that matter food security?

BunsanSpace 6y ago

He mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast about owning 5 mansions and what he liked about each one. he's not humble in anyway, looking at his twitter he comes off as a real twat to boot as well.

zpeti 6y ago

It doesn't matter any more unfortunately. Anyone with a billion dollars is now evil. There can't possibly be anything positive about a rich person. Oh America, how you have fallen.

StillBored 6y ago
Personally I think Musk is more in the "accidental" billionaire category than many of them (by that I mean his wealth is heavily volatile with a lot of risk, and was hard to predict). That said, most of these billionaires have gotten there because they were able to abuse some part of the capitalistic society. The "quality product for a fair price" bit is warped in some way due to monopoly power, exploiting their workers, etc. Which is why a lot of people really dislike the Waltons, Bezos, etc billionaires. Its hard to answer why they should benefit so hugely when they could have cut into their wealth a little and given their employees a working wage, or slightly better benfits, etc. Instead they have created massive generational wealth gaps where their children/etc will effectively be royalty, and then cynically used propaganda to even neuter the government/financial system from ever re-leveling the playing field. And what for, so they can have tens of billions instead of tens of millions while something like 50% of the population lacks even basic healthcare, or for that matter food security?