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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Please see: all the people criticizing elon musk for being "the richest man in the world", as if he doesn't deserve to be. How many profitable electric cars and reusable rockets have you invented?
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What about people that don't deserve to be? I was born rich, I never did anything to earn it, and I'll benefit from it the rest of my life. Not close Elon Musk rich but enough that my entire life was easy. He was born far richer and he had all the right ladders to get him into the rooms he needed to be in to leverage his talent for sniffing out nickels.
Very rich people wield immense power, and Elon Musk is a piece of shit, as are most very very rich people. That's why he doesn't 'deserve' it, because the net effect of someone being able to accumulate that much wealth and power is negative across society. In the presence of two parties that continually sell out the country to moneyed interests, beyond a certain point, the power that level of wealth brings is immoral. Why do you think both Republicans and Democrats have the same frustrating feeling of not having a say in anything? Our institutions are highly dysfunctional. They need to be fixed. In the meantime, once someone hits $1 billion, give them a plaque that says they win capitalism, and tax the fuck out of anything over that. That goes for both George Soros and Rupert Murdoch. Fuck them both it's too much power.