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DOGE de-funded to the highly effective screwworm firewall in Panama, which effectively kept screwworm at bay in North America for decades. Less than two years after that decision, screwworm is decimating the beef cattle of the Southern U.S. right now.
We no longer live in a society.
It will now be a dark age of anarchy and war lords.
Gee, what effect could a trillionaire, who frequently meddles in politics, in a country where money=speech, and therefore political spending is unlimited, possibly have on my life?
Wait wait wait hear him out! If gaining a trillionaire had no effect on us, then losing one probably won't either.
Let's test it, for science!
Definitely one for the history books too. Figuring out if society needs trillionaires or not.
We have to see, we have to known.
Doge reminds me of the road rifter that tipped the scales a couple decades back, even as the tax season was coming to boot, so it all got returned to sender. Like, who received and processed this ish? This is was George Washington warned about when he chopped down that cherry tree WHICH WAS APOCRYPHAL AND ADDED IN THE FOURTH EDITION OF HIS BIOGRAPHY. Fucking lemmings up here jumping off cliffs cuz Bill Ding of Lego Island told them to. You remember that game? I have asthma, so I don't except when I do. Fuck DOGE, it was a ruse...for you.
stealing 100s billions of tax dollars for his companies, that dint amount to advancement of tech(he only bought said companies to say he produced these)
His wealth is much more imaginary than, say, Warren Buffett's.
If Musk starts selling off all his stock, well, he's the majority shareholder of his own companies, so the prices will collapse. He'll be lucky to get 200-300 billion out of his trillion dollar valuation. I chose Buffett as a comparison because his company holds shares in tons of other companies, so it's much more diversified and the value is not nearly as dependent on one single shareholder not selling much
He'd still be richer than buffet. We need to tax stock incentives and bonuses as income at the share valuation when issued either as cash value or percentage of stock to the government to be sold over the best 12 months.
Oh definitely, I'm just saying it doesn't mean there's a literal trillion missing from somewhere else. If the government confiscated all his companies they'd have to sell off super slowly to get that full trillion, otherwise it would tank.
This man could lose a trillion dollars and still be a billionaire, it's fucked up.
He can loose 99.99% of his current valuation or whatever and still have more than enough money to never need a job. Surely he has a yacht he owns outright and can sell.
...one percent of a trillion dollars is ten billion dollars; one percent of ten billion dollars is one hundred million dollars; one hundred million is an order of magnitude beyond comfortably independently-wealthy anywhere on the planet; math checks out...
Damn should've added another 9
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
Let's compare two of the richest men in history
Rockefeller's charitable giving began with his first job as a clerk at age 16, when he gave six percent of his earnings to charity, as recorded in his personal ledger. By the time he was twenty, his charity exceeded ten percent of his income.
Vs
Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation have disbursed over $1.1 billion since 2010. However, the vast majority of his recent philanthropy—including a record $474 million in 2024—primarily funded his own personal entities, specifically schools and donor-advised funds closely linked to his business and personal interests
Rockefeller recorded it in his own personal ledger?
I'm sure it was all on the up and up. Just like I paid taxes on all of my tips when I was getting paid cash for waiting tables.
(A joke, I realize Rockefeller did contribute quite a bit to the common good, at least once he was mind bendingly wealthy.)
Now now, let’s not forget the valuable work DOGE did with screwworm eradication.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-biden-new-world-screwworm-blame-12049389
These poor screwworms have been having sex with sterile partners and their chance at the American dream has been stolen from them.
I thought we would only take white screw worms from south Africa
I makes me terrible stressed to know the richest person in the world is a sick soulless, zero empathy person.
I'm hoping for some irony and a bunch of these fuckers end comes when they get sick with something that they literally blocked research/funding for, thus making it terminal.
Sickness treatment and life extension research is the only reason the keep us Cattle barely surviving.
They need us grinding to create valuable things for then... Until (they hope) AI replaces us.
how couldn't they be exactly that?
Wealth disparity also causes inflation - because wealthy people can and do drive up prices on goods, sometimes buying up whole markets/products. On top of this, they like to avoid taxes. Taxation being deflationary because taxes take money out of circulation, so uber wealthy people can completely, and enmass buy up select materials/property driving prices up (see the price of graphics cards and memory during the AI boom), and they halt the deflationary effects of taxation by avoiding taxes....
...and the wealthy are also likely to corrupt politics, skewing results in their favour - often shifting burdens onto the poorer classes or otherwise worsening conditions for the rest of us.
Basically: large wealth disparities are bad for the economy, bad for society in general, and bad for democracy, fairness, justice, and equality.
Simping for the mega rich will never not blow my mind.
It's the idiots deluding themselves into thinking they'll be rich one day
Most of these people don't think they'll be rich. But they are married to the idea of "hierarchy." As long as they can exist in a world where they have more advantages than women or poc or queer people, they will gladly defend a trillionaire destroying American democracy.
This is exactly it.
Got JoeBob from the trailer park arguing for more tax breaks on the rich while he shits in his 5 gallon bait bucket cause the toilets broken and he cant afford to get it fixed, because hes convinced he'll be a millionaire one day and its only fair for him to be able to do all that cheaty millionaire shit too.
Brian sounds like a dumbass
As someone from the exact opposite of the planet, it makes politician drooling even more and want his investment coming into the country more, and you know what this mean: resource hungry AI datacenter that destroy vulnerable community and nature, and also carbrained people wanting the ugliest car for the display of wealth. This will happen because Melon Husk will force it to happen.
And the premise of the question is broken as well. Because what good is it for him to become a trillionaire? What is it that he was able to do after he made his first billion that he couldn't do until he got a ton more money? Nothing. Nothing at all.
The ultra-rich try to get richer because they think that will make them more superior, but in no way could it possibly actually improve their quality of life. But we know that the money they stole from us fucks over everybody. And we know that the destruction they cause to our governments fucks over our children.
He's still a miserable little cry-baby who whines about how mean it is when someone gets happy at Tesla stocks tanking.