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Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

You would have had to have started counting DURING THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC ERA. And we let a man — a dogshit one — accumulate that much money as people starve to death. What the fuck are we doing?

LET THIS SINK IN 🤯 The world is about to create its first trillionaire before it guarantees clean water, food, housing, and healthcare for everyone. We live in a world wealthy enough to create trillionaires, yet millions of people still go without basic human necessities. That's not a failure of resources, it's a failure of priorities. What a messed up world. 💔

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business…

Health care has never been more highly funded in this province’s history than it is under Danielle Smith. I’ll give you one guess as to what makes healthcare a disaster in this entire country. 🇮🇳 🇵🇭 🇨🇳

You have pronouns in your bio. This is payback for my tax dollars being used to fund the stupid shit that you happen to personally believe in.

People who believe in a free and independent Alberta all owe a debt of gratitude to @acoyne.. Every time Andy pens one of his arrogant screeds from a bar in Yorkville he reminds another 1000 Albertans how arrogant and out of touch with reality the self described “Laurentian Elite” really are. Andrew Coyne is a very effective salesperson for #AlbertaIndependence. Keep up the great work Andy. You are almost as effective as @jkenney at reminding Albertans who much better off we will be without you.

Should Albertans keep Canadian citizenship if they separate? Hmm open.substack.com/pub/montes…

Show me your plan. Fully costed. Please and thanks. I’ll wait.

Meanwhile, in Canada: "Violence against nature and the climate are inseparable from violence against humans. One example is climate change as a gendered issue, which leads to systemic disadvantages for all women."

Alberta separatist routinely throw real Conservative accomplishments, not to mention @stephenharper’s government, into the dustbin of history. That’s wrong. Albertans have improved Alberta’s place in Canada before. We can do it again. open.substack.com/pub/thelin…

Albertans don’t want apologies or compensation—they want the unfair treatment to stop. We don't need a different country. We need different policies in Ottawa. #UnitedCanada #StrongerAlberta #CdnPoli