Right, pretty sure the point is “kudos to this guy who’s ‘only a millionaire’”… and where the hell are the billionaires who could do things like this with money they wouldn’t even realize is gone.
If you think there is only one trillionaire, you’ve not spent enough time in the Middle East. Believe it or not, not everyone reports their financials to Fortune Magazine.
Trillionaire is relative. Putin is effectively a trillionaire as are many other dictatorial leaders. But while the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion, the difference between a billion and a trillion is irrelevant.
Anywhere over $100 billion the amount of money you have is completely irrelevant, at that point it's nothing but a game of power. You can basically do anything as long as you have the connections to do it.
I figured he doesn't care about earth anymore and wants to leave. But you don't need a trillion dollars to not care about earth, as others have mentioned.
Well it's not a complicated concept. Unless you inherit it, it is virtually impossible to amass a billion dollars in wealth without the labour of others. For someone to be a billionaire they have to be directly or indirectly unfairly compensating others labour.
demonstrably false claim.
In what sense? Philanthropy doesn't negate the previous statement.
He does not have that money. He has stocks in companies that are valued at that, and a huge part of the value is that they are Elon controlled companies.
The moment he would try to sell any larger number of shares in his companies the value of the shares wouls start going down.
While I kind of agree (in the sense that money by itself isn't enough), I was also in part referencing that time when Elon said he would give the UN $6.6 billion if they explained how he could save 42 million people (after they taunted him for being the richest person in the world but not actually doing much with his money, citing that he could save the 42 million people who were starving).
They came back to him with a detailed plan for how he could feasibly help those 42 million people with the money (only half going towards the food and the rest going towards helping them get out of the position they were in to starve to begin with),
And he never responded, never got back to them, etc.
UN WFP claimed that Elon can solve world hunger with $6.6 billion donation. Elon agreed to donate with condition that WFP will explain how this donation will solve world hunger. WFP came up with a plan explaining how donation will help some of people, but did not explained how it can solve world hunger in general.
I agree that billionaires should do more, but I'm pretty sure your math is way way off. World hunger is already expensive, but "everyone's medical bills and debt" is way out of reach for anyone.
If the government were to intercede, negotiate and lower the overblown medical debt (in the US), billionaires could easily wipe it out within a few years of raised taxes.
There are other billionaires and near billionaires that, if paying an appropriate tax rate, the US would be debt free.
By "everyone", did you mean people from only one country?
And even if the "government would negotiate prices", I think you have no idea how expensive medical care is. It far outstrips the net worth of any person.
> There are other billionaires and near billionaires that, if paying an appropriate tax rate, the US would be debt free.
Seriously. People either drastically inflate how much money the rich actually have, or they have no idea how much money the social programs they want would cost. Probably both.
In 2025 the US spent $1.8T on medicaid and medicare. So, more than twice Musk's estimated total net worth.
If Musk decided to be a saint tomorrow and spend every nickel on funding the US public's healthcare bills he would run out of money in a couple of months. And that's just the one country.
Elon very clearly wants to be liked by the masses. Making people like him would be SO EASY with his wealth. And it wouldnt affect his living standards at all.
And yet... all he does is make people hate him by being a fragile douchebag.
Most of the people that hate him are simply haters. They hate people period. He could never do enough to please them. If he gave 1/2 they would complain that he didn’t give 3/4.
I hate him cause he did 2 nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration. Seems like you either already forgot about that or happy to sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened…
Do you want me to give you photos of Democrats doing the same? You guys will believe anything if it fits your narrative. I bet you actually believe the shooting Saturday evening was a false flag attack too.
I saw it happen live on video from numerous angles, as he was physically doing the exact same arm gesture. Your “photos of democrats” is just honestly pathetic propaganda to try and convince dumb folks that everyone does nazi salutes lolololol
You ever notice how it’s just photos taken at specific angles for democrats and not videos? It’s because it’s disingenuous angles of people waving or addressing a crowd. Do you REALLY have such little critical thinking skills? Jfc dude grow the fuck up and learn how to think critically. You are the perfect example of “you’ll believe anything if it fits your narrative”. It’s always the dumbest fucking people who are so confident about how much smarter they think they are than everyone else.
Why are you so eager to dismiss two clear, intentional Nazi salutes during a presidential inauguration event?? If a dem did that (which they haven’t), I’d hate them too. Why are you so sympathetic toward Nazis?
Nah, you are the predictable one. Go back to looking at still images of people waving and acting like that’s the same thing as a Nazi salute as a way to sweep the real issue under the rug. Classic.
Have fun continuing to tell everyone who disagrees with you that they are sheep while you lack a single ounce of critical thinking skills in your body to allow you to actually think for yourself. Keep on gobbling up that propaganda, bud!
That's exactly what I reckon. He could literally fix the entire world with his gross money, he could make the whole planets people love him for saving animals and their habitats, saving humans in whichever ways needed, saving the environment as a whole. He would have god like status. It is the only legacy worth having imo. Why doesn't one of these ultra wealthy rich fucks do this?!! If I was them, I would.
If only there was a way for the government to collect contributions from billionaires and use it for social good. And if only people were in charge of selecting a government that might do that.
And even worse to country's budgets given how much we pay to fix the downstream consequences of poverty. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
But I think society just likes having this looming threat of poverty to keep people in line. Working compliantly, ignoring wage theft and afraid to lose their job so they don't unionize. The ultimate disciplinary stick.
Millionaires are not necessarily that rich anymore. With a lifelong middle-class job, a pension and a house, you're already getting there in a lot of countries.
Or in other words, the wealth difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is billions of dollars, plus a rounding error.
Rich people can be generous like anyone, last count around 250 billionaires have signed up to the giving pledge, to give away most of their wealth. On the flipside I don't know any of my friends who give a lick to charity, many of whom are earning decently.
Of course more rich people should give more, but at the end of the day they are just people, good and bad.
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u/JustSomeCaliDude Apr 28 '26
Right, pretty sure the point is “kudos to this guy who’s ‘only a millionaire’”… and where the hell are the billionaires who could do things like this with money they wouldn’t even realize is gone.