Elon could liquidate every company he owns - SpaceX, Tesla, X, Neuralink, Boring, xAI - and give the proceeds to SNAP recipients as free soda and Doritos for roughly 10 years. Or... he could cover about one year of interest on the national debt. This is the level of economic understanding behind “Elon should just pay his fair share.”

The Boondocks would call it a “nigga moment” not “stand your ground”

Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich. Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's. Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift. You may think this is all theoretical. You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact. We're already asteroid mining. And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age. All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes. All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach. Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine? Artificial scarcity. Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth. Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't. Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers. Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger. That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low. Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag. They think Mars is a sideshow, you see. They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit. Strip them down there, and build. If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products. In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well. You have no idea what's coming. Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope. I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant. It's a big fucking elephant.

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

Elon becoming a trillionaire is horrible. What are we supposed to teach our kids? That if you create self driving cars, colonize space, provide Internet access to everyone on earth and fix debilitating diseases that you can become a TRILLIONAIRE?? Disgusting.

Can you imagine how the forefathers of American Democracy, the ancient Greeks, would have responded if someone had suggested that they host wrestling matches at their sacred site of Olympia ?

MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD OF AN INVESTOR GOOGLE IS 6% OF SPACEX 14% OF ANTHROPIC 75% OF WAYMO $900M INTO SPACEX IN 2015 → NOW WORTH $115B $13B INTO ANTHROPIC → NOW WORTH $140B WAYMO JUST RAISED $16B AT A $126B VALUATION → GOOGLE’S STAKE WORTH ~$95B. THOSE THREE BETS ALONE ARE WORTH OVER $350B AND THEY HAVE 100’S MORE SMALLER ONES $GOOGL

Ten years ago, Elon Musk and Jack Ma both looked like avatars of the future. Musk was building electric cars, rockets, satellites, and AI. Jack Ma was building Alibaba, the crown jewel of China’s internet economy. Fast forward a decade: Musk is worth $1.1 trillion. Jack Ma was forced into silence, Ant Group’s IPO was crushed, Alibaba lost its aura(its stock plunged by more than 60% since 2020), and China’s tech sector went from world-beating to politically domesticated. One entrepreneur was allowed to compound. The other was reminded who really owns the scoreboard. This is not just a story about two billionaires. It is a story about two systems. One system lets madmen build rockets to Mars. The other cuts down its most successful entrepreneur for flying too close to the sun. That is why Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. And Jack Ma became a warning label.

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

Zwei Nachbarn, ein Kapitalist und ein linker Sozialist haben jeweils eine Karttoffel. Der Sozialist macht sich daraus eine Ofenkartoffel und freut sich über ein gutes Abendessen. Der Kapitalist isst Brot und pflanzt seine Kartoffel ein. So hat im nächsten Jahr ein paar Kilo Kartoffeln, von denen er einige essen und ein paar wieder einpflanzen kann. Der linke Sozialist sieht bei der Ernte die vielen Kartoffeln seines kapitalistischen Nachbarn und beschwert sich darüber wie unfair die Welt ist und dass er ein Anrecht auf die Hälfte der Kartoffeln seines Nachbarn hätte!

There’s been a lot of anti-Elon Musk rhetoric over the last few days. Here’s the heart of it. They don’t hate him because he became a trillionaire. They hate him because he found a way to bypass their media monopoly and give the people a voice.

For anyone mildly curious; the Swedish government wants to vote on banning the hijab and so leftist feminists are responding by comparing the hijab to our folk costumes, yes its really that insane

Ein Imker-Urgestein bereitet Veganern nun Kopfzerbrechen 🔥 „Ohne meine Bienen hätten sie mit ihren Veganern nix zu fressen, weil 80 % ihrer gesamten Ernährung von meinen Bienen kommt ... Also lassen Sie mich mit Ihrem veganischen Scheißdreck in Ruhe.“ 🤣

Every criticism of Musk’s success basically boils down to one of two assertions: 1) I’m deeply ignorant of basic economics and finance; and/or 2) I angry that someone I dislike succeeded/is more successful than me.

It's a very strange feeling to just randomly see J.K Rowling committing murder in public...

The “mosaic” approach to multiculturalism was a cute idea, but it ultimately created Balkanized societies where ethnic groups remain isolated and mutually antagonistic. The experiment failed and needs to be replaced with something new.

capitalist: I make what you need and you pay me if you like it socialist: I don't make anything and you pay me even if you hate it

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time. The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules. So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

It is illegal under Palestinian law for a Jew to own real property. It’s punishable by death for the Palestinian who attempts to sell the real property to a Jew.