I’m taking a class on systems rn and we’re learning a lot of very basic level concepts that also have some overlap with business and economics. I don’t hold a degree in economics like mr. musk, but learning the little I have about systems has really made me question just wtf wealth hoarders (most of whom seem to be much more familiar with systems thinking) envision for the future?
The idea of systems balancing or collapsing seems to be fundamental to ALL systems. So even if the goal is to collapse this one, and that’s why they don’t really care/maybe are trying to ensure it’s as unbalanced as possible, what happens in the next system that emerges as a result of their success?
I really can’t buy they suddenly no longer feel the compulsive need to hoard resources because they’re motivated to preserve their own system.
Has a chat bot convinced them there’s a special loophole and the rules that apply to every other system don’t apply to theirs?
If you’re taking classes on systems, I want to know your take on this vestigial mode of attention coordination we have in our cognition that I experienced one time. The person that wrote this article is a friend who explained much, but he disappeared. I think he still lurks places, but I want to learn more about what I experienced:
Why would they be upset by the idea of a trillionaire making campaign donations?
All they need to do is pledge allegiance!
He didn’t have that wealth. He has stocks worth that much at current evaluations. The liquidity market wouldn’t allow him to get 10% of that is he tried
Tbf those countries don’t have that wealth either
Exactly otherwise he would have already bought those countries
He does have the power of nuisance as a result of that wealth.
Another upsetting thing about this is Elon is just the first of many more trillionaires to come.
It won’t be a huge number, though. Capitalism still works to consolidate wealth. While there never has been any private individual with that much wealth before in human history, that kind of wealth is not unprecedented. The main reason is that people with that kind of wealth have historically been emperors. And make no mistake, anyone with that kind of wealth carries with them the threat of becoming an emperor. After someone becomes an emperor or a dictator, they gain absolute control over the GDP of whatever they control. But even now, Musk’s wealth is not even 1% of the world’s GDP. Someone like Augustus Caesar would have had several times more wealth, and direct control over something like 25% of the world’s GDP. Musk having this much wealth is disgusting - nobody should even be a billionaire. But, at the same time, in the grand scheme of things, he will be nothing more than a footnote in history. He has never done anything actually memorable. People only know him now because he’s a cunt with a lot of power. But power fades, and the world has had countless cunts. In the end, he’s not anyone special. In 100 years, the average person will likely have no clue who he was. Nor will they care.
Not if we can summon the political will to tax them out of existence altogether.
But who am I kidding? The oligarchs in control are just waiting for their turn to be trillionaires themselves.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
People growing up now is groomed by the system to not think, only consume! AI was the latest “do not think yourself, do not use your brain” implementation. Make the masses brain dead sheep that is easy to control.
His companies operate at a loss. How is this guy a trillionare? Not in my view.
SpaceX is worth 1.75 trillion dollars
The people who’s money isn’t on the books because it’s too old, pay him to do stuff. These stocks are by far the easiest and cheapest way to do it.
Not starlink, but yes all the others do, and some by a lot (xAI)
xAI is under spaceX, so spaceX is now operating at a loss
The only problem they see is that he’s not
payinglobbying them enough.It’s not one man. It’s one fascist.
Catch-22.
If he weren’t a fascist, he wouldn’t be a trillionaire.
True, but I think it’s the other way round. He’s a fascist because he’s obscenely wealthy. When you have that much power, empathy dies. It’s a downward spiral of negative feedback actually, the more power, the less empathy, the greater the lust for power and the more unscrupulous you can be, and so on.
citizen. yeah, no. i’m not calling that fuckknob a citizen. citizens contribute and participate in society.
fuck elon musk. fuck xai.
build the water treatment plant you promised the people of memphis.
Is he even naturalized?
What are thé 19 countries?
I assume they mean gdp so here’s the list for countries and here’s the list with some states mixed in for fun:
- United States — $31.8T
- China — $20.7T
- Germany — $5.3T
- India — $4.5T
- Japan — $4.5T
- United Kingdom — $4.2T
(California — ~$4.1T)
- France — $3.6T
- Italy — $2.7T
(Texas — ~$2.6T)
- Russia — $2.5T
- Canada — $2.4T
- Brazil — $2.3T
(New York — ~$2.3T)
- Spain — $2.0T
- Mexico — $2.0T
- Australia — $1.9T
- South Korea — $1.9T
(Florida — ~$1.7T)
- Turkey — $1.6T
- Indonesia — $1.6T
- Netherlands — $1.4T
- Saudi Arabia — $1.3T
(Illinois — ~$1.2T)
- Poland — $1.1T
- Switzerland — $1.1T
(Pennsylvania — ~$1.1–1.2T)
Thank you vert interesting
Does he work like a piñata? Just curious.
One way to find out.
Whatever country he dies in gets to keep the money that’s just science
We need to take it all and redistribute it.
He’s so good at the game he’ll surely have no problem winning again.
I see we are mixing up wealth and income again.
Ok, depending on how you measure capital gains as income he’s still making more than half the countries on earth (~$50b, eg. Estonia) this year, if not from only today with the 20% gain on the IPO price for SpaceX.
Once it’s all said and done this year he will have “made” well into the hundreds of billions putting him probably in the top 50 countries.
It is absolutely wealth if he can walk to the bank and get a loan using it as collateral.
Not what I’m saying. People are comparing his wealth to the income of nations (GPD).
I see you enjoy the taste of boot
Why do you say that?
Because you’re attempting to defend a fascist wannabe child fucker, if I had to guess.
Nope. Happy to see him get what’s coming to him.
